It's a measure of Milton's ambition and his intellectual courage that enables him to set out to justify a God who can inflict upon his creatures such a seemingly arbitrary act of licensing.

就是弥尔顿的雄心和他智慧的勇气,让他去证实上帝是能强加给他创造的世界,这样看起来专横的控制的行为。

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For men, being all the workmanship of one omnipotent, and infinitely wise maker," Namely God, "They are His property, whose workmanship they are, made to last during His, " not one another's pleasure."

既然人类都是无所不能和无限智慧的，创世主的创造物“，也就是上帝，“他们就是他的财产，是他的创造物，他要他们存在多久就存在多久，由不得他们自己作主“

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