It's a set of images that couldn't be more foreign or more alien to the prophetic mode of the Old Testament prophets.

这是一组不能再背离旧约先知的形象的,一组比喻了。

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Milton had begun the sentence not with calm, prophetic certainty about his divine vocation. He began it with a far more secular set of images, a set of images that comes from the world of business.

弥尔顿并不是以一种先知对他天职，的冷静确信开始写的，他以,更世俗的比喻开始,生意上的比喻。

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Yeah, particularly when it takes prophetic form, that is a form that stands in condemnation of those things in sort of order, in the rums of power, that enslave people, that oppress people that mistreat people.

是的，尤其是以先知预言形式出现的时候，谴责那些,在命令和权力下，奴役人们，压迫人们,虐待人们的现象。

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Machiavelli's prophetic prince, in other words, must have some of the qualities of a philosopher, as well as a religious reformer trying to reshape and remold human opinion, especially opinion over, as we said, good and evil, just and unjust.

马奇亚维利的先知型君王，换句话说，必需多少拥有,哲学家与宗教改革者的特质,想尝试改造及重塑人们的看法，特别是对善恶，正义与不公的看法。

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He throws his high prophetic talents into the construction ; of the Saint Peter speech; and in 1645, historical circumstances being what they were, he was able to look back at this passage and actually claim that it had been a genuinely prophetic utterance.

他把自己预示的才能投入在,圣彼得的演说之中;,在164年，历史背景如此复杂，他能够重新回顾这段,并且做出一段真诚的预知性的论调。

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