But even as you do follow Gods way, there are times when things happen that you don't understand, hard and even painful things.

当你跟随神的时候，有时，有些苦难或痛苦的事情临到，使你不明白神的带领。

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In some way, the elite had associated themselves with the power of the gods.

在某种程度上，精英们把自己与神的力量联系在一起。

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But they became greedy, petty, and "morally bankrupt," and the gods "became angry because the people had lost their way and turned to immoral pursuits," Orser says.

但他们后来变得贪婪，小气并最终“道德破产”，众神“怒不可遏，因为人们已经迷失了方向，开始追名逐利”，Orser说道。

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So magic in a pagan system, Kaufman claims, is a way of getting around the gods, circumventing the capricious will of the gods and demons.

考夫曼宣称，异教系统中的法术，可以用来应付众神,能使反复无常的神谕和恶魔的诅咒失灵。

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Some few people who had sinned terribly and earned the wrath of the gods would, indeed, be tortured in some special and typically Greek, interesting way. You remember Tantalus.

一些罪孽深重,触怒神灵的人,的确会受到一些希腊式的特殊刑罚,这很有意思,你们记得坦塔罗斯

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So in sum, Kaufman's argument is this: Israel conceived of the divine in an entirely new way. Israel's God differed from the pagan gods in his essential nature. The pagan gods were natural gods.

总而言之，考夫曼的观点就是：以色列从一种全新的角度,构想了神的世界，以色列的上帝与异教的众神,在本质上完全不同，异教的众神是自然的神。

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But now the mullet is on the way back because a book called "Mullet - Hairstyle of the Gods" has been published.

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And, of course, Brazil and India have the same fears of China as global low cost manufacturer as the US. In India, each village has their own little gods of protection and people tend to have god idols in their homes the way a Brazilian might have a statue of Jesus with open arms, like the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio, decorating their book shelves.

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