So Christ also did not take upon himself the glory of becoming a high priest. But God said to him, 'You are my Son; today I have become your Father.

5如此，基督也不是自取荣耀作大祭司，乃是在乎向他说:“你是我的儿子，我今日生你”的那一位；

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He found by their example that their heads were not so good as their hands on such occasions; and therefore resolved to take upon himself the important commission.

他根据他们的例子发现在这种场合他们的脑子都没有他们手那么好用；因此觉得他自己来承担这个重要的任务。

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Napoleon does not so much prepare himself for the part he is to play as all around him lead him on to take upon himself the responsibility of what is being done and is to be done.

与其说拿破仑自己给自己准备好扮演的角色，不如说周围的人让他承担正在发生和将要发生事件的全部责任。

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"For anyone to take it upon himself to be judge, jury and executioner is nothing but sheer evil, " said Karen Swallow Prior, who is running for lieutenant governor of New York on the ticket of the anti-abortion Right-to-Life Party.

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