Eventually, a priest was called who said that this was not a physical illness but a divine punishment due to unknown causes.

终于，有个神职人员说，这不是身体的疾病，而是由于黄金蛇的影响。

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Moral purity of persons can be achieved only by punishment for heinous sins: for example, the punishment of chirate, or cutting off, ; is a divine punishment of being extirpated from the House of Israel; death, alright, that's one way to be rid of moral impurity.

只有通过惩罚这些穷凶极恶的罪过,才能获得道德的纯洁，举个例子，切去身上的某部分，是一种连根拔去罪恶的惩罚方法;,死亡，当然也是摆脱道德不洁的一种方法。

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As the title suggests, the themes of this work of fiction are the old ones: the vanity of human striving, divine punishment for overweening confidence in our technological achievement, the futility of human effort in a world ruled by indifferent nature.

NEWYORKER: Unsinkable