It's just a long, long text that's set to music but that text is drawn from "Apocalypse, " The images of "Apocalypse."

它改编自一段很长的文字,但文本来自《启示录》,对《启示录》的想像

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They are trying to make sense of the tragedy that has befallen them, how a text like Joshua 23 and Joshua 24 would go a long way towards explaining their fate while retaining faith in Yahweh.

他们想要解释降临在他们身上的悲剧，章节如《约书亚书》第23和24章就花很大力气,来解释他们的命运，同时保持对耶和华的信仰。

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You prove to your teacher that you understand the authors by being able to put their meaning in other words -in other words, to say the author is intending to say something, not just that the text says something and this is what it says, with your exam then being one long screed of quotation.

你们用自己的话写出文章的含义,以此向老师证明你们理解作者的意图,换句话说，要告诉老师作者想表达什么，而不仅仅是文本说的什么内容，然后在试卷上来一大段,冗长的引用。

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