It was also a Pagan spiritual symbol, the shorthand of which looked like this.

它也是一个非基督教的信仰象征，更简化的看起来像这个。

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It was agnomon, Silas had been told, a pagan astronomical device like a sundial.

有人告诉过塞拉斯，这是指时针，是异教的一种天文仪器，与日晷相似。

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There has been a slippage from Christian spirituality into something like a pagan naturalism, and it's a world in which all things are physical.

它们从基督教的精神性,滑向了一种异端的类似自然主义的东西，它们描绘的世界里万物都是物质的。

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