And why is that? Within the perspective of Milton's free-will theology, sin can't exist as an external reality.

为什么呢？从弥尔顿自由意志的学说的角度来看，原罪是不可能以永久现实的形式存在的。

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Maybe someday the British--United Kingdom-- something will happen to it, it will fall apart or change, but that is so distant in the future that we can disregard that, so we'll take that as forever.

或许有人会说英国,大英帝国,总会有突发事件发生,政权会发生改变,但至少现阶段不会改变,我们可以忽视它,因此我们就认为它是永久存在的了

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