例如,在美索不达米亚的故事中,神肆意妄为,凭着一时的念头做事。
In the Mesopotamian stories, for example, the gods act capriciously, the gods act on a whim.
那时,亚兰王哈薛上来攻打迦特,攻取了,就定意上来攻打耶路撒冷。
About this time Hazael king of Aram went up and attacked Gath and captured it. Then he turned to attack Jerusalem.
这些事完了,保罗心里定意,经过了马其顿,亚该亚就往耶路撒冷去,又说,我到了那里以后,也必须往罗马去看看。
21after all this had happened, Paul decided to go to Jerusalem, passing through Macedonia and Achaia. "After I have been there," he said, "I must visit Rome also."
There might be a little more of Nietzsche suggested in that, than Machiavelli, but I think the Machiavellian overtones are very evident.
这之中也许有更多尼采的成份,而非马奇亚维利,但我认为马奇亚维利式的言外之意,是非常明显的。
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