Oh,well,we're in Laodicea. Let's say 'To the Laodiceans,' and we can act like Paul sent it just to us."

比如在老底嘉的人填上“致老底嘉教会“,它就成了保罗寄给老底嘉都会的信“

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

These are churches of almost every imaginable stripe, and they're springing up and, from a mainstream perspective, they're quickly eroding the authority of the Church of England.

几乎每寸可以想到的土地上都有教堂，从主流角度来说，他们迅速成长，他们很快就侵蚀了英国的教会统治。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

And when Gambetta, whom you can read about,whom I mentioned the other day, when he said,"clericalism,there's the enemy"; and,then you had this sort of campaign against the church, particularly the teaching aspect of the church that's fascinating, which I'll talk about later.

而甘贝塔,你们在书上看过,我之前也提过,他说,教权主义,就是敌人,之后就有一系列反对教会的运动,在反对教义方面尤其精彩,我之后会谈到

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

He's engaging his father in to a contractual situation just as he will engage the entire English people in The Reason of Church Government.

他在使他的父亲加入这个合同,就像他使整个英国国民加入一样,我们在《教会政府的原因》里已经看到过。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

He argued that this John Milton fellow simply couldn't be heeded on matters of the church, or on matters of the state, because Milton himself had absolutely no moral authority.

他批判到,弥尔顿根本不重视教会事务，或者国家事物，因为弥尔顿自己就没有绝对的道德权威。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Since the poem's initial appearance, the institution of episcopacy, or church hierarchy, has been seriously eroded.

从这首诗初次面世以来，主教制度，或者说教会的等级制就已经被严重腐蚀了。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Were Milton not to fight in some way to defend what he takes to be the true church, he would simply not be investing those talents that God had given him.

如果弥尔顿没有以某种方式,来维护他心中真正的教会，他就并没有在发挥上帝给予他的才能。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选