That's because it's here where the rigid polarities between light and dark and good and evil, all of these absolute oppositions, begin to collapse.

这是因为这里就是光与暗,善与恶之间严格的两极分化，及所有绝对的对比开始崩塌的地方。

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They're not wholly good, not wholly evil, and no one god's will is absolute.

他们不是完全的善良，也不是完全的邪恶，也没有一个神灵的意愿是绝对的。

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God was so afraid of us that He actually doubted His hold on His own empire, an empire that He was only actually able to maintain because of good luck or something like superior military firepower, but certainly nothing as grand and as absolute as omnipotence."

上帝是如此害怕我们,都开始怀疑自己能否驾驭自己的帝国了，他维系这个帝国,靠的是运气或者是强大的火力，绝非是靠什么伟大的无所不能的神力“

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They were very often associated with blind forces of nature with no intrinsic moral character, he says. And the god of Israel was understood to transcend nature and his will was not only absolute, it was absolutely good and moral.

他们与自然的力量相关,没有内在的品德，而以色列的上帝,被认为是超越自然地存在，他的意愿不仅是绝对的，而且是绝对正确和道德的。

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