If the sanctuary is not purged of impurity, it can become polluted to the point when God is driven out entirely.

如果圣所没有清除不洁，它可以被污染得直到上帝舍弃它。

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God prefers the offering of Abel, and as a result Cain is distressed and jealous to the point of murder.

上帝经常给亚伯恩典,结果，引发了该隐的嫉妒之心，起了杀意。

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Up to this point, the Christian God has been referred to as Jove.

直到他出现之前，基督上帝都以丘比特的名字来提及。

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At that point,the gods don't like it because like the Judeo-Christian god, they want to have some boundary between the two,but for them it's very important, because the boundary is far from clear.

这样的话,诸神自然不高兴,就像犹太-基督教中的神灵一样,诸神需要人神之间有一道界限,这对诸神而言是非常重要的,因为界限本身就是模糊不清的

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At this point in the story, perhaps the view is that all know of God even if they ignore him.

从这点来看,即使每个人都忽略上帝，但都知道上帝的存在。

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He is obedient to God in a way that no one has been up to this point in the narrative, But perhaps ultimately the model of blind obedience is rejected, too.

他如此顺从于上帝,到目前为止的叙述中，从未有人如他这般，也许最后，这种盲目的顺从也被否定了。

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God has promised at this point, however, not to destroy all humankind again, So he experiments with a single individual of faith.

但是上帝却在这时保证，再也不摧毁全人类，因此他检验了个人信仰。

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First it may be that Adam and Eve had access to this tree up to that point. As long as their will conformed to the will of God there was no danger to their going on eternally, being immortal.

第一，亚当和夏娃很有可能，可以接近生命树,只要他们遵从上帝的旨意,此时的永生，是没有威胁的。

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The point is not mere verbal acclaim of God as suzerain.

并不是仅仅是口头上承认上帝为领主。

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