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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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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His claim that the lives of his fellow citizens are not worth living and his claim that his way of life has been commanded by a god that no one else has ever heard or seen.

他主张其同胞的人生,不值得活,和自己的生活方式,是受神性的指示,这些都未曾有人听闻过。

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No one single god was therefore all powerful.

没有一个单独的，万能的神。

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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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