"We'd just go out and mark trees with a dot and everybody would agree where you'd tee off from and you'd have fun."

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That's going to lead us very nicely into an understanding of the laws that mark off Israel's status and keep Israel distinct among the nations, which we'll be looking at on Wednesday.

这将很好的帮助我们理解,将以色列与其他国家区分开的那些法律，周四我们将讲到这个内容。

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But Israel is the one to affirm its holiness by observing the rules that make it different, that mark it off as holy.

然而以色列通过观察那些使之与众不同的,使之神圣的规则，肯定了它的神圣性。

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They were pretty slow off the mark to do something about this, and it was after lawsuits were filed that they actually made the change.

他们先慢腾腾的应付着,直到诉讼结束时才真正做出改变

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So there are two components integral and inseparable in the concept of holiness: initial assignment of holy status by God and establishment of rules to preserve that holy status, and secondly, actualization of that holiness by humans through the observance of the commandments and rules that mark that thing off as holy.

因此在神圣这一概念中，有两个组成部分,一个是上帝最初形成的神圣状态,和为了保持这个神圣状态而建立的规则制度，第二个是，人们通过遵守戒律,而将神圣现实化到生活中,将神圣的事物标记出来。

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