This is somebody being tortured at the stake for merely existing, for having not confessed to being a Protestant or a Catholic or whatever.

那个人被毫无缘由地处决,或者由于新教徒或天主教徒的身份,或者其他什么原因而受罚

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It's like you have a social security number or other ID number, which positively--there might be another person with the same name as you, God forbid, but you at least have your own number, which is guaranteed to be unique to you.

就好比社保号,或者其他身份号码,很有可能,有另外一个人,和你重名,希望这不要发生,但你至少有唯一的识别号,用于区分自己和他人

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The imperative of preserving a distinct identity based on giving up the worship of other gods or older gods and observing all that is written in the law of Moses is reiterated in Joshua's farewell address in Joshua 23, and in the covenant renewal ceremony in 24.

保存明确身份的需求,建立在放弃对其他或更早神灵的崇拜之上,并且要遵守写在摩西五经中的所有律法,《约书亚书》第23章约书亚的告别辞中多次重申，在24章中重立契约的仪式上。

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So Greenberg, and since him, Brettler, and many others, have argued that the principle of divine authorship has certain very important implications. First, it has a significant effect on the scope of the law.

所以Greenberg和他之后的Brettler以及其他很多学者,都认为，作者身份的神圣性原则有某些意义重大的,含意，首先，它对法律的适用范围有重要影响。

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