He repeatedly maintains that the path he has taken is not of his own choosing but the result of a divine command.

他仍不断地强调,自己所走的路子,并非他自己的选择,而是天赐的结果。

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God's forbidding of the fruit removes from Adam and Eve any capacity for choosing and deciding, and you can see Milton worrying in Areopagitica about the uneasy relationship of his own argument to this central text in divine scripture.

上帝对果实的禁止抽离了亚当和夏娃选择和决定的,能力，你会看到弥尔顿在《论出版自由》中的焦急,因为这不安的关系,他的论证和虔诚的圣典中的中心段落。

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