So many of them would have gone up to Jerusalem and a real tension is going to develop between the Jerusalem priests and this class of Levites who are newcomers; and we'll see some of that tension played out in some other texts.

他们中的许多人将去耶路撒冷，一次真正的紧张状态,将在耶路撒冷的牧师和这些新来的利未人,中逐渐发展起来;我们将会在其它的经文中,看到一些这种紧张状态。

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It's in light of this ongoing cultural tension in the period that, I think, we can understand some of the strange confusions concerning chastity that we find in the poem that we're looking at.

根据那年代持续的文化紧张状态，我认为我们可以理解那些,在诗中读到的涉及贞节的困惑。

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And the drama of human life should revolve not around the search for eternal life but around the moral conflict and tension between a good god's design for creation and the free will of human beings that can corrupt that good design.

而关于人类生命的戏剧,不应该围绕于对永生的追寻,而是道德的冲突和紧张状态，在上帝创造的美好,和人类能腐蚀这种美好创造的自由意志间的冲突。

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It is the creative tension.

它是创造性的紧张状态。

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