When Abraham prepares to slaughter his own son, Perhaps God sees that blind faith can be as destructive and evil as disobedience, So God relinquishes his demand for blind obedience: he stops Abraham himself.

当亚伯拉罕准备屠杀他的亲生儿子时，上帝也许发现了盲目信仰,会与叛逆一样具有毁灭，一样邪恶，因此上帝放弃了对盲目信仰的要求：,他自己阻止了亚伯位罕。

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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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To the extent that Lycidas' body has been recovered, that it's been redeemed, Milton is able -- perhaps successfully, Milton is able to justify the ways of God to men.

利西达斯的身体最终愈合了，被救赎了，这样弥尔顿就得以--或许是成功的，证明了上帝待人之法。

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I feel that as absolutely at the heart of the Muslim tradition 9 perhaps most beautifully articulated in Soura 49 that God made us in different nations and tribes so we may come to know one another.

我觉得这绝对是,穆斯林传统的核心所在,而这在Soura，49中有最美的表达9,上帝将我们创造为不同的民族和部落,因此我们可以逐渐了解彼此。

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With Jacob, who is now Israel, God seems perhaps to finally have found The working relationship with humans that he has been seeking since their creation.

在成为以色列人的雅各布身上，上帝似乎终于找到,与人类的劳作关系,他自创世起一直在寻求这种关系。

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to earn his favor and perhaps his protection, But even that god will have limited powers and abilities and may in fact be defeated or may turn on his devotees.

来赢利他的青睐或者是保护，但纵然是上帝，权力和能力也是有限的,事实上，他也许会被打败，或者发动他的崇拜者。

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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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He's asking us to imagine God, or perhaps this is God's creative spirit, as some sort of feminine being laying the universal egg and brooding over it until it bursts forth with new life. This is a risk.

他想让我们把上帝，或者说上帝的创造精神，想象成一个产下宇宙之卵并孵伏其上,直到新生命破壳而出的女性形象，这很冒险。

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The only relationship that will work with humans is perhaps one in which there is a balance between unchecked independence and blind obedience, And God seems to find that relationship with Jacob.

唯一与人类建立的有效关系也许是,存在着某一平衡的关系,不受遏制的独立与盲目信仰之间的平衡，上帝好像在雅各布那里找到了这种关系。

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The will of any one god can be thwarted by perhaps another god.

某一条神谕可能会受到另一个神的反对。

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So, if those are the distinctive characteristics that earn the human being certain rights over creation But also give them duties towards creation, And the human is distinct from animals In being created in the image of God, To be godlike is to perhaps possess some of these characteristics.

那么，如果这些都是与众不同的特点,它们让人类有权利管理其他创造物,但是也让他们对其他创造物负有责任，人类与其他动物不同,因为他们是依照上帝的形象所创造，与上帝相像便可以获得一些这样的特点。

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