Things can't become holy and can't come into contact with the holy or the sacred if they are not first pure.

事物不可能变得神圣或是与神圣有联系,如果它们连纯洁都算不上。

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Because the two are not identical despite massive amounts of scholarship that confuses this issue: thinks holy means pure, thinks common means impure, and it just doesn't: these are different binary oppositions. The two are not identical.

因为这俩并不完全相同,还是会有很多学者会弄混它们：,认为神圣的就是纯洁的，普通的就是不纯洁的，实则不然：,它们是不同的相对关系，它们并不完全相同。

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And we identify this work as Priestly because it deals with matters that were of special concern to and under the jurisdiction of priests: the sanctuary, its cultic rituals, the system of sacrifices, the distinction between the holy and the profane and the pure and the impure.

我们之所以把《利未记》看成是与祭司有关的,是因为其中特别写到了,祭司的一些相关内容，包括至圣所，宗教仪式，供奉体系，以及神圣和世俗、,纯洁与肮脏之间的差别。

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