They throw heraldry, they throw every kind of vestige of Old World culture and monarchy and aristocracy and civilization.

他们抛掉了世代相传的家徽,抛掉一切来自旧文明,和旧君主政体的痕迹,抛掉了贵族政治和文明

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The remains and records of these strongholds make it clear that the political organization was an imitation of oriental monarchy.

这些堡垒的遗迹和记录表明,这个政治体制效法了东方君主政体

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The ritual cult of the Israelites may look like that of their neighbors but it functioned very differently; its purpose was drastically different from that of Israel's neighbors. The Israelites like their neighbors may have set up a king over themselves. But Israelite monarchy differed from Canaanite monarchy in significant ways because of their monotheism.

从祭拜仪式上看，以色列人和邻国类似,但操作起来很不一样，而目的则完全相反,以色列人可能会像邻国那样,拥立一位君主，然而受一神论的影响,以色列的君主政体和迦南地区的有明显差异。

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