Saint Paul enumerates what we now call the cardinal virtues: ; "And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity."

圣保罗列举了我们现在所说的基本美德：,信念，希望，仁爱，这三种;,最重要的美德就是仁爱“

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And I think it's impossible not to see that when Milton substitutes the virtue charity with the far more circumscribed ideal of chastity.

而我认为当弥尔顿把更加局限的贞操去代替局限的仁爱时,这不可能读不出来,虽然贞洁更加局限。

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Charity, or what he seems to have been thinking of as the selflessness of Christian love, is a virtue generous and capacious enough to encompass all of the others but faith, hope and chastity? "And the greatest of these is chastity"?

仁爱，或者,他认为的基督教无私的爱，是一种足够宽广，能够涵盖其他美德的美德,但是，信念，希望，贞操？最重要的是贞操？

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