It illustrates Satan's self-destruction even as the main narrative of the simile portrays Satan's heroism.

这个故事讲述了撒旦的自我毁灭,尽管它也描述了撒旦的英雄主义。

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Instead the Israelites are affirming their identity and their relationship with God by telling a story, a story whose moral can only be that God is reliable.

相反，犹太人是确定了他们的身份,和上帝的关系，通过讲述这个故事，故事的唯一教育意义便是，上帝是值得信赖的。

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Irving Fisher then told that story as an illustration of how poorly the understanding was of what was going on.

欧文？费雪之后讲述了这个故事，以此,来阐述人们对发生的事情,了解得到底有多少。

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So, that translation causes people to believe that ; The story is giving me an account of the first event in time forward; But it's actually a bad translation.

因此，这种翻译让人们相信,这个故事将讲述时间存在以来的第一件事;,但事实上这是一个有误的翻译。

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Well you can read the story, it's in Numbers 20, the incident is described there. But the answer is still not entirely clear, it's not clear what Moses did that was so bad as to deserve this punishment.

你们可以阅读这个故事，在民数记20，讲述了这个事件,然而答案却仍然不是完全清楚的，摩西究竟做了什么,坏事才遭受这样的惩罚，还不完全清楚。

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