这是源自创世记1:1“起初神创造天地。”

This is evident from Genesis 1:1: "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."

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而另一方面，透过他所熟知的摩西五书，也就是旧约的前五部书，他知道最早的经文便记载著「起初， 神创造天地。」

On the other hand, he had the Pentateuch, the first 5 books of the OT. He knew the first words in the scriptures: in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

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But it's almost as if Milton were tempted now to make himself go even further back, to write a humble ode that he could place at the feet of the Creator, the Creator at the moment of the actual creation of the entire universe.

但弥尔顿那时好像,要把自己放回比那还要早的年代，来写一篇谦逊的颂歌安放在造物主的脚下，那时的造物主实际就是创造天地万物的神。

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