At last God commissioned him a glorious task to announce the absolution of Nineveh, a city which would have rotten and perished in its SINS.

神终于给了他一个光荣的任务，去宣布赦免一座本来要被罪行毁灭的城市——尼尼微城。

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But in acting in such an insolent manner, Antiochus did not realize that the Lord had let him profane the Temple in order to punish the inhabitants of the city, because their SINS had offended him.

安提约古一时大为得意，却不想这只是上主，为了城内居民的罪恶，暂时动怒转眼不顾圣所罢了。

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They argue that the Koranic authority for this is the story of God's destruction of the city of Sodom because of its citizens' sins.

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Up to 70m Hindus are expected to come to this city in eastern Uttar Pradesh to wash away their sins at one of the four spots where drops of the elixir of immortality fell from a pitcher as gods fought with demons to possess it.

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