You'll remember the description of the world from Genesis 1 as an air bubble essentially that's formed by separating waters above and waters below.

大家都记得《创世纪》1中，把世界的描述1,一个大气泡,上面下面都被水覆盖。

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The sky, the world above, is really bound up with the world below.

高高在上的天空与，下面的世界确实密不可分。

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There is this sense of the concerns of the sky somehow, the concerns of the above; the concerns of the transcendent are seeping their way in to the concerns of the material world below.

这有种来自天空，来自天上的眷顾的感觉;,高高在上的天神一点一滴地,眷顾下面的物质世界。

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