In the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
园子当中又有生命树和分别善恶的树。
So, the Garden of Eden story communicates what Kaufman would identify as a basic idea of the monotheistic worldview: That evil isn't a metaphysical reality, it's a moral reality.
因此,伊甸园的故事里传达了Kaufman所说的,基本的一神论世界观:,邪恶并不是形而上学的存在,而是道德的现实。
Before the Fall of man, God has given man special revelation: in the Garden of Eden, God issued his command to man. Man is not to eat from the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil;
在人类堕落之前,上帝已向人有特殊启示﹕在伊甸园里,上帝给人命令﹕不可吃分辨善恶树的果,吃的那日人必定死。
We might even call this Machiavelli in the garden of good and evil, midnight in the garden of good and evil for Machiavelli.
我们甚至能称此为,马奇亚维利走进善恶花园,午夜的善恶花园,有着马奇亚维利的踪迹。
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