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。

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Up to this point, the Christian God has been referred to as Jove.

直到他出现之前，基督上帝都以丘比特的名字来提及。

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