At a very early age, Milton brooded on his poetic vocation as if it were an actual calling from God.

在很早的时候，弥尔顿就在沉思他的诗歌事业,就像是来自上帝真实的召唤。

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He is, as he says a gift from the god, he has been commanded, he argues, to do this.

而是如他自称是上帝的恩典，他强调自己受到指派才进行答辩。

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Milton's God doesn't, as we learn from Genesis, doesn't fashion the matter of chaos with his hands.

弥尔顿的上帝不是像《创世纪》中所写的那样，用双手从混沌中创造物质。

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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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