It also serves a social and political function, because The portrait or picture of the universe or the world and its structure Corresponds to and legitimates the structure of Babylonian society.

它还有社会和政治功能,因为对宇庙或世界的描绘以及它的结构,与巴比伦社会的法律体系是一致的。

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And so the pagan picture of an amoral universe of just competing powers, good and evil, Kaufman says, is transformed into a picture of a moral cosmos. The highest law is the will of God and that imposes a morality upon the structure of the universe.

在异教观念中，一个充满了权力斗争，善神与恶神对抗的，非道德宇宙，变成了,一个道德的宇宙，上帝的旨意是最高的法律,它给宇宙的结构添加了道德这一概念。

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