主教的统治，教会的统治,是控制解经的方法。

The rule of the bishop and the rule of the church was the way to keep control over the interpretation of the text.

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教会统治集团如今感到教会应该反映国家的社会现实和政治现实。

The church hierarchy today feels the church should reflect the social and political realities of the country.

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君主对平民和教会的所有机构拥有绝对的权力，统治着一个和平的王国。

The sovereign holds total power over all the institutions of civilian and ecclesiastical life, holding sway over a kind of peaceable kingdom.

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These are churches of almost every imaginable stripe, and they're springing up and, from a mainstream perspective, they're quickly eroding the authority of the Church of England.

几乎每寸可以想到的土地上都有教堂，从主流角度来说，他们迅速成长，他们很快就侵蚀了英国的教会统治。

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So, what happens with all this is that absolute rule impinges directly on the lives of ordinary people more than kingly, or queenly, or princely, or archbishoply power had intruded on the lives of ordinary people before that.

随之而来的结果就是,绝对王权统治,比起之前的王室以及教会的统治,对普通民众的直接影响要严重地多

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