The word "Antarctica" comes from a Greek root meaning "opposite to the north."

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Now, the Hebrew word "holy" has a root meaning of separate. Separate.

现在，这个希伯来词语“神圣“，根源的意思是独立。

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And I was talking about the fact that for Deuteronomy the election of Israel, God's election of Israel means or entails the idea that Israel is a holy people, holy in the sense of separated to God that root meaning of holiness which means to be separated from the common or the ordinary.

我上次提到了《申命记》中的一个事实,以色列被选择，上帝选择以色列意味着,以色列是神圣的民族，对于上帝他们是分离的,这便是神圣的根本意义,意味着与一般和普通分离。

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