Why does it matter that Israel understands its relationship with God, and uses the covenant as a vehicle for expressing its relationship with God, the vehicle of the suzerainty treaty?

这对犹太人理解他与上帝的关系，和用契约作为一个媒介，阐释他与上帝之间的关系,对这个领主条约，有什么意义呢？

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So that's something there're physicalist can say and for that matter, there is something that a soul--somebody believes in souls could say as well.

物理主义学者可以这么认为,甚至相信灵魂论的,那些人,也可以这么认为。

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But I want to pause for a moment and note that this assumption that the way to think about the value of the combination as just a matter of adding the goodness of life and the badness of death and just summing them that way-- that may not be right.

但我想暂停一会并指出,这个用加上生命的好处,和死亡那个的坏处然后求和的方式,去考虑这个组合的价值的假设-,可能并不是正确的。

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