He makes promises of progeny to Abraham and his heirs.

他答应亚伯拉罕及他的后代人丁兴旺。

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Where other peoples have seen sameness and continuity, the Greeks and the heirs of their way of thinking, have tended to notice disjunctions and to make distinctions.

别的民族看事物的统一性和连续性,希腊人传承传统思想,看到的多是事物的不同点,进行比较

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We are all here the heirs of Plato.

在此我们全是柏拉图的子嗣。

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To me that seems an accurate description of the human condition that is meaningful, not only for the Greeks and their heirs in the West, but for all human beings.

在我看来,这些对于人类情况的描述是,准确而意味深长的,不仅对希腊人和西方人,而是全人类

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