Milton ultimately is a pious man and wants us to frown on Satan's critique of the Judeo-Christian conception of divinity.

弥尔顿终究还是个虔诚的教徒，想要我们厌恶撒旦,对犹太教与基督教共有的神权概念的批判。

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Milton has expended, we know, a considerable amount of energy in establishing what he wants us, I am assuming, to believe is the divine authority behind the poem.

我们知道弥尔顿花费了，大量精力阐释他希望我们相信的东西，我设想，他要我们相信在这部诗篇的背后有无上神权的存在。

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Is that type the common man ? is it found in democracies; those of acquired taste and money as in aristocracies; the warrior; ? or even the priest as in theocracies?

那属于一般大众类型吗,存在于民主之中吗;,或是存于那些得体且富有的,如贵族，战士或甚至是神父中;,如同神权政治吗？

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It goes without saying that these are questions that it's impossible for us to try to answer certainly now, but Milton lets us know later in Paradise Lost that Satan was wrong to embark on his dangerous deconstruction of divine power.

毫无疑问，这些问题,我们现在无法给出确切回答，但弥尔顿后来在《失乐园》中告诉我们，撒旦,想要毁灭神权力量的危险行动是错误的。

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