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In fact, in the book of Judges, you will read of a temple to Israel's God, the God of the Covenant, and that temple is called the Temple to the God of the Covenant or Baal Berit.
事实上，《士师记》中，你会读到祭祀以色列神的庙，订立契约的上帝，这座庙叫做,契约之神庙或者太阳神巴力之约。
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The land is described as a land where milk and honey flow, and if only you will obey the voice of Yahweh your God. This is the kind of language that's used here, and not so much in the other books.
应许之地被描述为流奶与密的地方，并且只要,你遵从了耶和华你神这种语言,仅仅被用在这里，而不是在其它几书中。
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Let's suppose that come Judgment Day, God will resurrect the dead.
我们假设一下最终审判日的时候，上帝将复活死者。
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So, for absolute rulers, the link to religion you can read about, but there's always the sense that he or she is doing God's will by exploiting ordinary peasants, ordinary people and conquering other territories.
所以对于绝对统治者,你会在书本上读到他们与宗教之间的联系,但是存在这样一种观点,即绝对统治者是代天授命,所以他们有理由剥削民众并且扩张领土
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He's going to ameliorate their conditions, he's going to make their slavery on his plantations so effective, so good, such a even joyous form of labor, that he will be doing God's work by improving slavery.
他会改善奴隶们的生活条件,他会让自己种植园的奴隶们,提高工作效率,优化管理模式,奴隶甚至是一种令人享受的工作,他会按照上帝的旨意提升奴隶的生活水平
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They're able to choose their actions in conformity with God's will or in defiance of God's will.
他们能够选择遵从上帝的意愿,也能违背上帝的意愿。
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They're not actually present in the real world of Milton's hell, or if it's a pagan god who's mentioned, Milton will tell us that the pagan god was just an early manifestation of one of the fallen angels.
事实上他们没有在弥尔顿笔下的地狱中出现，或者作为异教的神被提及，弥尔顿将告诉我们那些异教的神只是堕落天使中,一名天使早期的表象。
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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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Perhaps because they have become wise in that they have learned they have moral choice. They have free will, they can defy God and God's plans for them in a way that animals and natural phenomena cannot.
也许是因为，他们在拥有智慧以后,明白他们有道德选择，他们有自由的意愿,可以反抗上帝为他们决定的命运,而这些事动物和自然无法做到的。
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If Israel doesn't fulfill her obligations by obeying God's Torah, his instructions, and living in accordance with his will, as expressed in the laws and instructions, then God will not fulfill his obligation of protection and blessing towards Israel.
如果犹太人不履行自己的责任,遵守上帝的教训和旨意，按照他的意愿生活，就像律法和训诫中规定的那样，上帝也将不履行他的义务,保护，怜悯犹太人。
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And the drama of human life should revolve not around the search for eternal life but around the moral conflict and tension between a good god's design for creation and the free will of human beings that can corrupt that good design.
而关于人类生命的戏剧,不应该围绕于对永生的追寻,而是道德的冲突和紧张状态，在上帝创造的美好,和人类能腐蚀这种美好创造的自由意志间的冲突。
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We should note that this notion, or this idea of a god who can even make and keep an eternal covenant is only possible on the view that God's word and will are absolute, insusceptible to nullification by some superior power or some divine antagonist.
需要注意的一点是,神可以签订和遵守契约,只有可能是，上帝言语和意愿是不可违背的,并不会因为高级权力和强大对手而受到影响。
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God's redemption of the Israelites is a redemption for a purpose, a purpose that doesn't become clear until we get to Sinai, for at Sinai the Israelites will become God's people, bound by a covenant.
上帝对犹太人的救赎是有目的的，直到了西奈，目的才显现出来，在西奈，犹太人将成为上帝的子民，与契约绑定。
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He appeals primarily to God's vanity: What will the neighbors think if you destroy them?
他主要唤醒了上帝的虚荣：,如果你毁了他们，你的邻居会怎么想？
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The story is explaining how these odd conditions of life came to be as they are, which is not to say that it's the ideal situation or even that it's God's will for humankind these are etiological fables, and they're best read as such.
这个故事解释了，这些奇怪的生活状态,并不是说，这些便是理想的,甚至是根据上帝旨意的生活状态,而是阐述为什么会这样的原因，这是最好的解释。
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The Cain and Abel story which is in Genesis 4:1 through 16 this is the story of the first murder, and it's a murder that happens despite God's warning to Cain that it's possible to master the urge to violence by an act of will.
创世纪》第四章，1到16节，讲述的是该隐和亚伯的故事6,这是人类历史上第一宗谋杀案,尽管上帝警告该隐,邪念会让人暴力相向。
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In 24, the Israelites are assembled at Shechem to renew the covenant and Joshua recounts God's mighty deeds on behalf of Israel and exhorts them to choose whom they will serve: Yahweh, who has done all of this for them so undeservedly, or the gods of those whose lands they are settling in.
在24章中，以色列人聚集在示剑重订契约,约书亚代表以色列人重述了上帝无上的契约,并劝告他们选择将要侍奉的神灵：,耶和华，已经为他们做了这么多分外之事，以及他们迁入土地上的神灵。
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Does he fully intend to obey this command, to annul the covenantal promise with his own hand? Or does he trust in God to intervene? Or is this a paradox of faith? Does Abraham intend faithfully to obey, all the while trusting faithfully that God's promise will nevertheless be fulfilled?
他是否完全打算遵守这个命令，亲手废止,契约的应许？或者，他信任上帝的干涉吗？又或者,这是个信仰的悖论吗？亚伯拉罕打算忠诚地服从，同时,忠实地相信即使如此上帝的应许也会实现吗？
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Final point then is...and we're not going to talk about salvation right now...but we're going to talk about the fact that the only supreme law is the will of God, because God is a creator God rather than a created God. He's imposed order, an order upon the cosmos.
最后一点，我们并不准备马上讲救赎,我们准备讲的事实是唯一的,至高无上的法律就是上帝的意愿，因为上帝是一个创造者,而不是被造出来的上帝，他对宇宙发号施令。
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And when we remember that God will dig a rib out of Adam's wound in order to create the beautiful, the golden Eve, we realize how complicated, how complex and how ambivalent, Milton's little image is here at the beginning of the poem.
当我们想起上帝从亚当的伤口中取出一根肋骨,以创造美丽的金色的夏娃，我们意识到弥尔顿在诗的开头描绘的景象，是多么的复杂巧妙，多么的矛盾纠结。
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Moses enumerates additional misfortunes and sufferings that will befall Israel if she sins. But he emphasizes the choice is Israel's: God has been clear regarding what's required, and it's not beyond Israel's reach to attain life and prosperity. She needs to only choose.
摩西列举了如果以色列人犯罪，他们所面临的,不幸和惩罚但是他强调了以色列人所拥有的选择：,上帝已经申明他的要求，以色列人,想要的生命和繁荣并不是不可达到的她只需要选择。
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