Any era of great change, great ferment, usually causes reform, anxiety, people who get worried, want to change things.

任何一个大变革的时代,大的动乱,通常会导致改革和焦虑,人们变得担忧,想要改变局面

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Suppose you are starting a business with somebody-- it could be at any time in history-- Babylonia or something--this must have happened.

假设你要和某人一起做一笔生意...,可以在任何一个时代...,例如古巴比伦或者其他时代...肯定发生过这种事

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That is before there is any written evidence from the period in which you are interested.

那是一个你所感兴趣,而无任何书面记录的时代

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Then we read, or at least we think we read, that Satan's spear is small, and then we realize over the course of this reading process that Satan's spear is unimaginable, and we realize that our time-bound mode of knowing is ultimately inadequate to understand anything about the inscrutable truths of eternity: this is according to Fish.

然后又读到，至少我们认为读到，撒旦的长矛又很小，接着我们意识到了在阅读的过程中,撒旦的长矛实际上是不可想象的，并且我们被特定时代拘束的理解模式,是不足以理解任何,有关永恒的难以预测的真相的：,这是费什告诉我们的道理。

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And what we find, the first example of a Bronze Age-- and I use the word civilization now for the first time, because before the Bronze Age-- there is nothing that we would define as civilization.

我们发现的第一个文明出现在青铜时代,也是我第一次用文明这个词,因为在青铜时代之前,没有任何东西能称之为文明

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