Long before Milton had begun to tackle the problem, Christians had for centuries, for millennia, puzzled over the logical inconsistency between these two concepts.

早在弥尔顿应对这个问题之前，基督教徒们就已经花了成百上千年，为这两个概念之间逻辑上的前后矛盾感到困惑。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

You should be bringing some of the things we talked about when discussing his work, into dialogue with and in conflict with some of the evidence you'll be finding in the text itself.

我们需要回想以前讨论,在上帝与别人的对话中,你可以发现前后矛盾的地方。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Let the text be contradictory and inconsistent and difficult.

让这门课充满矛盾、前后不一致，充满困难吧。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选