"And while we will continue to do everything we can, we cannot be sure what the future will hold, but we are doing our absolute level best."

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Will not even philosophers, one might ask, given the possibility of absolute power ? be tempted to abuse their positions?

难道哲学家，有人可能问到，如果他们拥有绝对的力量时,难道不会想要滥用职权吗？

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We agree to be junior partners in absolute rule in exchange for recognizing your supreme authority over us in exchange for the protection that you will afford us."

我们愿意臣服在您的绝对权威之下,我们将视您为无上的权力,作为交换你必须向我们提供保护"

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They're not wholly good, not wholly evil, and no one god's will is absolute.

他们不是完全的善良，也不是完全的邪恶，也没有一个神灵的意愿是绝对的。

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Each of these phenomena he says is transformed by the basic Israelite idea of one supreme transcendent God whose will is absolute and all of these things relate to the direct word and will of God.

所有的这些现象都随着以色列一神论概念的建立而改变,只有一位至高无上的上帝，他的意愿是不能被人改变的,世间万物都随上帝的意愿而生。

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They were very often associated with blind forces of nature with no intrinsic moral character, he says. And the god of Israel was understood to transcend nature and his will was not only absolute, it was absolutely good and moral.

他们与自然的力量相关,没有内在的品德，而以色列的上帝,被认为是超越自然地存在，他的意愿不仅是绝对的，而且是绝对正确和道德的。

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He has no life story, no mythology, and his will is absolute.

他没有生平故事，没有神话传说，他的意愿是绝对的。

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His will is absolute. His will is sovereign.

他的意愿是绝对的，他的意愿是至高无上的。

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He does not emerge from some preexisting realm and therefore he is free of all of the limitations of myth and magic--we'll go through these one by one--but a God whose will is absolute and sovereign. All right?

他不从任何既存的空间而来，因而他不受任何,神话和巫术的控制，他是完全独立和至高无上的,这些我们将一点一点来分析？

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We should note that this notion, or this idea of a god who can even make and keep an eternal covenant is only possible on the view that God's word and will are absolute, insusceptible to nullification by some superior power or some divine antagonist.

需要注意的一点是,神可以签订和遵守契约,只有可能是，上帝言语和意愿是不可违背的,并不会因为高级权力和强大对手而受到影响。

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There can therefore, be no notion of a supreme divine will, an absolute or sovereign divine will. The will of any one god ultimately can be countered by the decrees of the primordial realm and the will of all the gods can be thwarted by the decrees of the primordial realm.

世上将不会再有至高的神谕，任何一个神谕最终将会被,这个原始领域的法令所驳回,所有的神谕都会遭到反对。

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