"There is no choice,you must change, because God's divine conduct will change you.

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Through the dynamics of the counter-plot, the similes reassure us of what Hartman calls the "graceful coexistence of free will and divine providence."

从这个反计的整个催动力来看，这些比喻向我们再次确认了被哈特曼称为,“自由意志和神圣天意华丽的共存“的结合“

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Hartman's absolutely right to insist that no theological concept is as important to Paradise Lost as free will on the one hand and divine providence on the other.

哈特曼有绝对的权利坚持说任何神学的概念,在中的意义都不足与匹敌自由意志的重要性,也不足以和神圣的天命相比。

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Naturally, one will think of things in ironic terms if one sees them from the perspective of the divine or of the eternal moment.

自然的,从神学和永恒的角度看,什么都是讽刺的。

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On the one hand, he says, his reference to a divine mission, he explicitly says there, will be taken by his audience as being just another instance of Socratic irony and insincerity.

一方面，他表示自己所指的神授任务，他很明白地表示，将会被听众误以为只是另一轮的,苏格拉底式讽刺及伪善。

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We can say that, but I wonder if it's possible even for these similes to convince us of the easy coexistence of these two incredibly important theological categories, free will and divine foreknowledge.

我们可以说，但是我还是怀疑，这些比喻是否能够,使我们相信如此这种两个太过于重要的相异点,即自由意志和神圣天命，之间的共存性。

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There is for Hobbes, as for Thrasymachus, no higher court of appeal than the will or the word of the sovereign, no transcendent law, no divine law, no source of authority outside sovereign command.

对霍布斯和特拉西马库斯而言，根本不存在能高过君主意愿,和言辞的上诉法院，更没有什么卓绝或是神圣的法律,以及其他权力是可以高于君主的命令的。

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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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The similes are for him instrument in the poem's larger agenda to reinforce our faith in the coexistence of free will and divine providence -- difficult, huge concepts.

这些比喻在这首诗更深的议程中是作为工具,来深化我们对自由意志和神圣天命的共存,所持的信念--这是两个艰深宏大的概念。

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Milton's blindness, the fact of his blindness, has shut out his view of the visible world, which would ordinarily present itself to him through the entrance of his eyes; and this shut-out will enable him, will help him, explore the invisible world of divine truth.

弥尔顿的失明，他失明的这个事实，遮住了,他看具体世界的目光，他通常是通过双眼,这个通道来看具体世界的，不过这种蒙蔽帮助了他，使他能够探索不可见世界中的神圣真理。

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There can therefore, be no notion of a supreme divine will, an absolute or sovereign divine will. The will of any one god ultimately can be countered by the decrees of the primordial realm and the will of all the gods can be thwarted by the decrees of the primordial realm.

世上将不会再有至高的神谕，任何一个神谕最终将会被,这个原始领域的法令所驳回,所有的神谕都会遭到反对。

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