I think it's fair to say that Milton can't really imagine or fully invest himself in the Christian heaven until he can fully corporealize it and imagine it bodily.

可以说弥尔顿不能真正想象一个,基督教的天堂,除非将其完全物化。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Some cultures have you going to Heaven or descending to Hell.

在一些文化中,你会上天堂或是下地狱

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Satan's saying that before the war in heaven, God's power just seemed like any other king's power, as if God sat on the throne of heaven merely because of those humanly constructed reasons of tradition, or of old repute or consent or custom.

撒旦是说在这场天上的大战之前，上帝的力量就和其他国王的力量一样，他坐在天堂的宝座上似乎仅仅是因为,人们自己营造的原因和传统，或者说是他过期的声望，他制定的法规以及约定俗成的规矩。

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Do you think I should neck or not? I shall not enter the kingdom of heaven anyway so I don't see what difference it makes.'" And then she writes back, Mary Brittle: "Dear Sabbath: Light necking is acceptable, but I think your real problem is one of adjustment to the modern world.

你认为我是该做还是不该做，我反正都上不了天堂了,因此，我认为做不做都无所谓，之后她给她回信了，玛丽-巴瑞特，亲爱的萨巴斯，你的做法是可接受的，但我认为,你真正的问题是无法融入现代社会。

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This is how this logic goes -- we are all familiar with this: our body remains to molder in the earth or welter in the ocean , but our incorporeal spirit rises to heaven where it can enjoy an ethereal, a bodiless, world of eternity.

就是这种逻辑--我们都熟悉这个：,我们的肉体在地下或是海底归于腐朽,但灵魂却会升入天堂,在那里享受无形的永生。

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Now it's the Elder Brother in the mask who offers us an even more, if you can imagine it, even more magnified view of the virtue of virginity The Lady herself had argued that heaven would send a glistering guardian down to defend her physical, her bodily -- integrity or physical innocence.

现在是面具里的哥哥，如果你能想象，是他给我们提供了对贞操更加赞美的看法,小姐自己也认为,上帝会派遣一个护卫来保护她，保护身体的完整或肉体上的无罪。

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