And why is that? Within the perspective of Milton's free-will theology, sin can't exist as an external reality.

为什么呢？从弥尔顿自由意志的学说的角度来看，原罪是不可能以永久现实的形式存在的。

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Other cultures focused more on an ethics of divinity where notions such as purity, sanctity, pollution and sin are relevant.

还有的文化则重于神性道德,他们的道德则与纯结，神圣，亵渎，罪孽等有关。

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They are individual creatures who seem really to be in hell just as they seem really to have been in heaven; but the figures of Sin and Death, they are entirely different animals.

他们是独立的生灵，身处于地狱,也曾经生活在天堂;,但是罪恶之神和死神却是两个完全不同的生物。

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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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It refers to the conception of Mary as being without Original Sin.

它是指玛利亚的怀孕,圣洁无原罪。

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Okay. That's the end. I want to remind you a final time to look at your Spenser, the cave of Mammon episode, as well as Dr. Johnson's brief comments on Sin and Death.

好，就讲到这，最后一次提醒你们,阅读斯宾塞，贪欲之神的洞窟的故事，还有约翰逊博士对《罪与死亡》的简评。

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They are mere personifications of abstract ideas, and it's not at all clear that Sin and her son, Death, exist as individual entities in the same way, or on the same plane, that Satan does, for example, or Beelzebub.

他们仅仅是将抽象的思想拟人化的结果，但我们不清楚的是罪恶之神和她的儿子死神，以同样的方式或在同一个星球作为独立的个体存在，例如撒旦或者苍蝇王比尔泽布也是这样。

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It can't exist as a force that conceives a human individual from the outside without that individual's consent because we all freely sin. No one can be compelled to do anything within the Miltonic theology of free will.

不存在那种不经人类同意就从外界,构造人类个体的力量,因为我们都自由地带着原罪，在弥尔顿自由意志的学说下,没有人被强迫做任何事。

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It's often erroneously translated as a "sin offering."

它通常会被错误地翻译为“赎罪祭“

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