On the other hand, a Protestant distaste for priest-centered cultic ritual colors scholarly accounts of the temple, and its meaning for ancient Israelites.

一方面，新教徒不喜欢，以神职人员为中心的,狂热祭祀，就庙宇来说，也有不同的歪曲，以及对犹太人的意义。

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From the standpoint of a devout person, he had no doubt that poetry was inferior to divinity.

站在神职人员的立场来看，他毫无疑问会将诗学排在神学之后。

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They came to stand for ministers, they came to signify allegorically ministers as well.

也开始作为神职人员的代表出现，他们非常讽喻性的代表着那些神职人员。

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In Italy, obviously, Milan and Turin were terribly important cities, and Rome, which is just sort of a sleepy, ecclesiastical capital full of tourists and clergy.

在意大利,最重要的城市,显然就是米兰和都灵,还有罗马,这个城市只是一座,充斥着观光者和神职人员的教会都城

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Instead, they do various things like govern and are priests, and are bureaucrats, and are engaged in other non-productive activities that depend upon others to feed them.

相反,他们从事其他职业,例如行政人员,神职人员,或是成为官僚,参与其他,非生产性活动,依赖他人供养

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But they also serve another very important function, and that was the formation and maintenance of a differentiated ethnic identity or in Priestly parlance, the formation and maintenance of a holy peoples separated out from other nations by rules that mark her as God's people.

但是它们也有另外一个很重要的功能，这个功能形成并维护了,一个分化的种族身份，或者用神职人员的说法，这些规则促使了神圣民族的形成和保持,这个民族和其他的城邦区别开来，被标记为上帝的子民。

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