Love and loyalty are mere abstractions, however, without some sort of vehicle for their expression; and the vehicle for their expression then is God's Torah, the sum total of God's teachings and instructions and laws and guidelines, which are supposed to ensure long life and prosperity in the land.

爱和忠诚都是一种无法表述的吸引力,于是律法卷就成了表述它们的方式,即对上帝的教诲，指导，律法和方针的,汇总，它将保证这片土地长久的,繁荣。

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That people were conceived, whether by nature or by God or even by evolution, with a certain order to them; some born to do this and some born to do that and some born to do that.

即人的等级已经被设定好了,不管是被自然还是上帝,还是进化使然,天命不可违,有人天生做这种事,有人天生做那种事等等

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And of course the all important question even though political philosophers and political scientists rarely pronounce it ? namely quid sit deus what is God? Does he exist?

当然还有最重要的问题,就算是政治哲学家和,政治科学家都很难做出判断的问题,即quid，sit，deus？上帝是啥？祂存在吗？

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