Different bishops in different major cities and different councils would sometimes try to decide, and they'd put out decrees.

不同城市，不同议会的主教,有时候会尝试把它确定下来，他们会颁布法令。

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Bishops at this time,especially of major cities, would sometimes send around what we call a paschal letter, an Easter letter. In which they'd give instructions or different kinds of things to their churches.

当时的主教，特别是主要城市的主教，会发出所谓的复活节书信，信里写着给其他教会的指示,或者其他事情。

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Priests, these are the bishops of the old system, have changed their name to presbyters, perhaps, and they look like revolutionaries, but they're manipulative, controlling actions haven't essentially changed at all.

牧师，这些是旧制度的主教，或许已经把名字变为长老，他们看起来像革命者，但其实他们的操纵，控制的行为并没有改变什么。

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Now of course, the presbyters had seized control in the first place because they disapproved of the tactics of suppression and intervention that had been deployed by the bishops, or the prelates, of the old church.

当然，现在长老首先掌握了控制权,因为他们对旧教会主教和教士的,镇压和干预策略非常反对。

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The church shouldn't be under the control of the bishops -this is Milton's argument -or prelates, a common seventeenth-century word for bishops, but the church should be led by preachers: men who were chosen by their congregations to preach.

弥尔顿认为,教会不应该在主教的完全掌控之下,或者这里可以用17世纪指称主教的常用词，高级教士，反而教会应当在布道者的领导下：,在那些被教堂会众所选出布道的人的领导下。

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