At its simplest, the declaration simply said that if the Japanese didn’t surrender, they would face “prompt and utter destruction.”

公告的要旨，用最简单的话说就是：如果日本不投降，将面临“迅速、完全的毁灭”。

youdao

And men shall dwell in it, and there shall be no more utter destruction; but Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited.

人必住在其中，不再有咒诅。耶路撒冷人必安然居住。

youdao

This goal is effected by the utter destruction of the mind's defilements — greed, aversion and delusion — all the way down to their subtlest levels of latency.

这个目标的成就，来自彻底摧毁心的杂染——贪、嗔、痴——直至最细微的潜在层次。

youdao

And why the claim of the utter destruction of the Canaanites when evidence points to close Canaanite origins? This practice, which I mentioned before and is known as herem or the ban, is not unique to Israel. I know some of you have studied it in sections you looked at the inscription of King Mesha, King Mesha of Moab.

那为何要声称迦南彻底的毁灭呢？,当证据指出了迦南的起源，这一习俗，也就是我之前提到的禁忌或祭祀，并不是以色列独有的，我想你们也已经学过,你们看摩押米沙王的题词，摩押的米沙王。

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