The rainbow is set up as a symbol of the eternal covenant, a token of the eternal reconciliation between the divine and human realms.

彩虹，作为契约生效的标志,标志着神与人之间的永久共存。

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But the introduction, "You shall be holy for I the Lord your God am holy"--being holy in imitation of God is emphasized repeatedly as the purpose of the laws in the Holiness Code especially.

你们要圣洁，因为我耶和华你们的神是圣洁的“,这一引言就是教导人们要效仿上帝保持圣洁,作为法律的目的它被反复强调，特别是在圣洁法典里。

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They are mere personifications of abstract ideas, and it's not at all clear that Sin and her son, Death, exist as individual entities in the same way, or on the same plane, that Satan does, for example, or Beelzebub.

他们仅仅是将抽象的思想拟人化的结果，但我们不清楚的是罪恶之神和她的儿子死神，以同样的方式或在同一个星球作为独立的个体存在，例如撒旦或者苍蝇王比尔泽布也是这样。

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It rejects the pagan idea of a realm beyond the deity, the source of mythology and magic. The affirmation that the will of God is supreme and absolutely free is a new and non-pagan category of thought".

这推翻了异教中的观点，即存在超越神性的，作为神话和巫术之源的领域，上帝的意愿是无上,并且绝对自由的，这一论断,是一个全新的且与异教思想无关的内容，“

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We don't have the image of this as a throne with the ark as God's footstool. So it seems to be a greater abstraction of the deity.

我们也没有看到王冠和约柜作为上帝脚凳的画面,因此这似乎是对神的进一步抽离。

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They're not actually present in the real world of Milton's hell, or if it's a pagan god who's mentioned, Milton will tell us that the pagan god was just an early manifestation of one of the fallen angels.

事实上他们没有在弥尔顿笔下的地狱中出现，或者作为异教的神被提及，弥尔顿将告诉我们那些异教的神只是堕落天使中,一名天使早期的表象。

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And so in the sentence that we've just looked at at some length now we have embodied in the form of a shifting argument - a really slippery argument -- the two senses of the word vocation: vocation as a job and vocation as a divine calling.

所以在我们详细看过的句子里,现在我们把他具体化成为论点的形式,这是一种狡猾的论辩--vocation的两种含义：,作为工作或者作为神的召唤。

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