All I want to stress is that my discovery of her was a fatal consequence of that "princedom by the sea" in my tortured past.

我想强调的是，我对她的发现,乃是在扭曲的过去里建筑的那座海边王国的致命后果。

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So in Deuteronomy 5:2-3: "The Lord our God made a covenant with us at Horeb . It was not with our fathers that the Lord made this covenant but with us, the living, every one of us who is here today."

那么在申命记5章2-3节耶和华我们的神在和烈山,与我们立约这约不是与我们祖先立的,乃是与我们今日在这里存活之人立的“

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