So Saint Peter concludes with -- it goes on, and he concludes with a couplet that is as terrifying in its threat of finality as it is for me utterly baffling in its significance.

因此圣彼得以一句如同这首诗结尾的威胁般,可怕的对句作了总结,我很难读出这句话的重要性。

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There's something--For many of us, there's something horrifying about the thought that something as amazing as us, as exalted and valuable as us, could end up something as lowly and unimportant as a piece of rotting flesh.

有一些，对我们许多人来说，这个了不起如我们的事物,尊贵有价值如我们的事物，最后以一堆腐肉结尾的想法是可怕的。

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