Some abstraction is also apparent in the shift from visual to aural imagery in describing God's self-manifestations or theophanies.

某些抽离在从纳贡者到听见神的自我宣称,或者神显的想像中也是十分明显的。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

We have certain instincts that are there and have been formed either God-given or evolutionary-given for millions of years that have been formed.

我们有生而有之的本能,或上天赐与或经几百万年,在进化中形成。

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I don't know what that means-- like God or the gods favor me and so I'm lucky or this is my lucky day.

我不知道那是什么意思...,是说上帝或者众神眷顾我,所以我很幸运,或者说这是我的幸运日

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In many passages too Yahweh is represented as presiding over a counsel of gods. Certainly in the Psalms we have these sort of poetic and metaphoric descriptions where God is, "Okay guys, what do you think?" presiding--or he's one of them, actually.

在很多文章里，耶和华,统领着整个神界的法律，在《诗篇》中,我们能看到这种类型的诗歌或隐喻，上帝会是这样的：,“嘿伙计们，感觉怎么样？“，甚至和众神打成一片。

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Now, mind you, notice these are not people referred to as god-fearing or lovers of god, no. They are just about equal to the gods according to these terms.

请注意他们并不是所谓的,虔诚的信徒或神明的拥护者,不是,根据这些别称,他们几乎是和神明一样的存在

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According to the sixteenth-century Protestant theologian Jean Calvin - a Swiss theologian, or actually French but he lives in Geneva - God chooses us, God elects us for salvation and damnation.

根据16世纪的新教徒神学家约翰卡尔文的说法,-一位瑞士的神学家，或者事实上是法国人但住在日内瓦,-上帝选择了我们，他选出我们去救世或者下地狱。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Power is something - and this is what we learn from a reading of John Milton - power is something that is created by a human process of deification, a process of king-worship or a process of God-worship or book-worship or a process, for that matter, of poet-worship.

力量是,-通过阅读弥尔顿我们就会知道,力量就是人们崇拜外物，不断将其神化的产物，这可能是对国王，上帝，或书本的崇拜,或者，就此而言，对诗人的崇拜。

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