It should further be noted that in the first creation account, in any kind of unequal relationship before God.

我们还应该注意第一个创世故事中的描述，说他们在上帝面前有不平等的关系。

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It's kind of interesting. God tells Adam before the creation of Eve that he's not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil that's in Genesis 2:16, on pain of death.

在《创世纪》第2章第16节，谈及死亡的痛苦时,上帝在没造出夏娃之前，告诉亚当,他不能吃智慧果。

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But we can only remember, he thinks, in the relevant way if our soul existed before the birth of our body, before the creation of our body.

但是我们之前知道,他认为我们的灵魂,存在于我们的身体诞生之前,在我们的身体被创造之前

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Mulciber fell long before Homer because Mulciber fell long before the creation of the earth -- and it's Milton, and it's no other poet before Milton, who's finally able to set the record straight. Milton's insisting here that all of the pagan deities had originally been fallen angels.

莫西伯在荷马出世前就堕落了因为,他早在大地被创造前就堕落了，是弥尔顿，在弥尔顿之前没有别的诗人，能够最终印证这个记录，弥尔顿在这里坚持的是,所有异教神原本都是堕落天使。

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But the story as it stands reiterates a motif that we've seen before: that of the threatened destruction of God's creation, or God's people by chaotic waters, and of divine salvation from that threat.

但是这段故事不断的重读我们前面见到过的一个主题：,上帝子民被汹涌的水所威胁,人们不断从那些威胁中的到拯救。

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When Plato asked himself how could that be, the answer he gave is, well, it's got to be we were previous acquainted with the forms before our life in this world, and that shows that the soul must be something that existed prior to the creation of the body.

柏拉图问自己这究竟是怎么回事，他给出的答案是,我们有生命以前就,已经熟悉了这些形式，这就表明灵魂是在,身体存在之前就已经具有的了。

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