There has been a long tradition of interpreting the deed or the sin of Adam and Eve as sexual, and there are some hints in the story that would support such an interpretation.

很长的一段时间中，我们把亚当夏娃所犯的原罪,解释为他们之间的性举动，这个故事中，有些暗示,与这种解释，不谋而合。

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Jacob Milgrom has argued that there's a kind of Archimedean principle at work here: every sin creates an impurity that encroaches upon the realm of holiness and displaces a certain amount of holiness.

雅各布·米尔格罗姆认为,这里存在着一种阿基米德原理：,每一种罪孽都会造成不洁,这种不洁逐渐蚕食神圣,慢慢取代神圣的位置。

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Like Milton's Sin, Spenser's Errour is half woman, half serpent, and in a lot of ways she embodies the very problem of religious error.

像弥尔顿笔下的罪恶之神，斯潘塞笔下的“错误“是一位，一半女人一半毒蛇的怪物，她从各个方面具体化了宗教错误。

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Remember when God said, "The sin of the Amorites is not yet complete, when they have sinned so much and to such a degree, they will be vomited out and then your tenancy can begin"?

记住上帝说的，“亚摩利人的罪孽还没有完，它们的罪孽是如此深重，他们最终将被驱逐，另一批人又重蹈覆辙，“

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