So, there's a wonderful thirteenth-century commentator that says that God needed creatures who could choose to obey him, And therefore it was important for Adam and Eve to do what they did And to learn that they had the choice not to obey God so that their choice for God would become endowed with meaning.

十三世纪有一位著名的评论家说,上帝需要有能力选择遵从他的生物，因此，夏娃亚当做他们所做的事情很重要,并发现他们可以选择不遵从上帝,那么他们对上帝的遵从便有了意义。

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From reading of such books," Hobbes continues, "men have undertaken to kill their kings because the Greek and Latin writers in their books and discourses of policy make it lawful and laudable for any man to do so provided before he do it he call him a tyrant."

正是因为这些阅读，他们意识到他们可以弑杀他们的君王,因为希腊和拉丁作家们,在他们的书籍和演讲中宣称,任何人都可以合法地弑杀他们的暴君,而且他们的此举也将是值得赞赏的“

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It is a trading post and it's there by permission of and under the protection of the King of Egypt, and that's because he wants--it's handy for him to have a merchant settlement of Greeks for him to do business with.

这里是个通商驿站,而且获得了,埃及法老的许可和庇护,因为他认为,与希腊商人通商交易,为他提供了一些便利

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