How then can we justify the ways of God to men? How can we justify the fact that the abstinent Orpheus, the virtuous Orpheus, ? was so brutally assaulted and without any aid from the higher powers?

如何证明上帝待人之法？，如何解释俄耳甫斯这样一个,节制欲望，贞洁自守的人竟会遭到如此残忍的谋害，却得不到任何更高力量的援助这样一个事实？

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