Now you will remember that the mask Comus was everywhere well, the strangely intertwined questions of the power of chastity on the one hand and the power of poetry on the other.

你们应该记得，面具戏《科玛斯》处处都,一方面是贞洁的力量，一方面是诗歌的力量,这两股奇特的纠缠在一起的力量。

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So don't be tempted--Moses later warns the Israelites -don't be tempted to say to yourselves , "My own power and the might of my own hand have won this wealth for me," or again, to say in Deuteronomy 9:4, "The Lord has enabled us to possess this land because of our virtues."

不要被引诱，摩西后来警告以色列人,不要擅自妄称，凭借我的力量，我的能力,我得到了这货财，《申命记》第9章4节中又说，耶和华将我领进来得这地是因我的义“

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It is not because you are the most numerous of peoples that the Lord set His heart on you and chose you ; indeed, you are the smallest of peoples; but it was because the Lord favored you and kept the oath He made to your fathers that the Lord freed you with a mighty hand and rescued you from the house of bondage, from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

并非因你们的人数多于别民,耶和华专爱你们，拣选你们,原来你们的人数在万民中是最少的;,只因耶和华爱你们,又因要守他向你们列祖所起的誓,就用万能的手领你们出来,从为奴之家救赎你们，脱离埃及王法老的手。

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