But Salem became so worldly that, except for the academy, a beautiful church and a graveyard called God's Acre, Salem lost its Moravian character.

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And so, to use the words with which Milton would begin Paradise Lost, " a theodicy is an attempt "to justify the ways of God to men."

因此，用弥尔顿在《失乐园》开头的话说，斯奥迪斯就是试图“证明上帝待人之法“

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My guess is that our sense of Milton's power, however that power is imagined, is intimately related to the way in which Milton himself represents power in the characters of Satan and of God in Paradise Lost.

我猜我们对弥尔顿力量的理解，不管我们如何想象这力量，与弥尔顿在《失乐园》中所写撒旦和上帝两角色对,力量的展方式切密切相关。

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The extent to which Milton succeeds in justifying such a God in Paradise Lost will be, of course, one of the questions that we will be exploring over the next couple of weeks. So You will read for Wednesday's class the first two books of Paradise Lost.

在失乐园中弥尔顿成功地证实了,这样一个上帝,扩展出了一个我们下几周要研究的一个问题,所以在周三前阅读失乐园的前两部。

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That Satan is still able to doubt the legitimacy of God's power is a testimony to the complexity, I think, of the analysis of power in Paradise Lost. No power, not even God's power, can be irresistibly and indisputably proven.

我认为，撒旦尚能怀疑上帝力量的正统性,就证明了，《失乐园》中对力量的分析的复杂性，即使是上帝的力量，也不能被不可抗拒，无可置疑的证明。

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That's because to suggest -- just think of it - to suggest that Milton is relying on his memory as he composes so allusively and so dependently, in a lot of ways, so much of Paradise Lost - to say that is simply to say that the poem has been generated by Milton and not by God.

让我们来设想一下其中的原因吧,假设弥尔顿全靠着他的记忆,正如他隐晦而连续地在《失乐园》中引经据典，并将这些以多种方式组合，这在《失乐园》中随处可见,以至于人们可以简单地说这部诗,是出自弥尔顿而非上帝的创作。

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