The Israelites certainly hoped to secure the perpetual aid and blessing and protection of a well-disposed deity.

以色列人当然也想从神灵那里,得到永恒的祝福和保护。

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They've been clearly been hurled into hell by a Judeo-Christian deity. So this little moment, this Medusa moment, we can call it, is really quite strange.

他们被犹太教和基督教共同的上帝扔进地狱,所以在这一时刻，我们可以说美杜莎的出现是十分奇怪的。

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We are talking, first of all, remember, about a multi-deity society.

首先要记住,我们讨论的是一个多神崇拜的社会

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He offers sacrifice to the deity and receives a blessing.

他为神献身，所以得到恩典。

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Christianity's main roots were in Judaism, a religion that worshipped a single, all powerful deity, who is sharply separated from human beings, makes great moral demands upon them, and judges them all, even kings and emperors.

基督的主要来源是犹太教,这种宗教崇拜单一的,无所不能的神,它独立于人类而存在,作出种种道德要求和评判,即使君主和帝王也不例外

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I think it's safe to say that we're intended to be shocked, ; maybe even repulsed, by this remarkable description of the deity; and so I'm hoping you feel something of a shock of these lines, "and mad'st it pregnant." Milton is taking a huge aesthetic risk here.

通过这不同寻常的对神的刻画，弥尔顿，应该是想要让我们震惊，甚至厌恶的;,因此我希望你们因这几句感到些许震撼，“使它怀孕“，弥尔顿在这里为了美感不惜冒了很大的险。

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Interestingly, unlike most ancient sanctuaries, the Israelite sanctuary did not contain a statue of the deity.

有趣的是，和大多数古代神殿不同，以色列神殿里没有神的塑像。

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It rejects the pagan idea of a realm beyond the deity, the source of mythology and magic. The affirmation that the will of God is supreme and absolutely free is a new and non-pagan category of thought".

这推翻了异教中的观点，即存在超越神性的，作为神话和巫术之源的领域，上帝的意愿是无上,并且绝对自由的，这一论断,是一个全新的且与异教思想无关的内容，“

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We don't have the image of this as a throne with the ark as God's footstool. So it seems to be a greater abstraction of the deity.

我们也没有看到王冠和约柜作为上帝脚凳的画面,因此这似乎是对神的进一步抽离。

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Now, texts from Ancient Near Eastern cultures suggest that a central function of the rituals that were performed in sanctuaries was to secure the perpetual aid and blessing of a well-disposed deity.

古近东文化的课文中提出,在圣所里进行的仪式的一个主要功能,是保证能够向神灵获得永久地帮助和祝福。

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But Genesis 2 refers to the deity as a name that's really a combination, Lord God it's Yahweh Elohim, so you'll see '"Lord God" right?

但是《创世纪》2中的神是个综合体，他叫Yahweh，Elohim，我们翻译为？

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