There seems to be in existence from the beginning of creation this universal moral law, and that is: the God-endowed sanctity of human life.

这个道德准则似乎在,创始之初就存在，它是指：,上帝使人类具有神圣性。

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How does Socrates answer these charges of, in a way being not just an abstainer but he kept putting his own private moral conscience or integrity over and above the law?

苏格拉底如何回答这些指控，不只是以一种疏离的角度,虽然他持续让,自身的道德感或正直,凌驾法律之上？

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For the most part Deuteronomy doesn't really contain much in the way of civil law. It tends to focus on the moral-religious prescriptions kind of the apodictic law in Israel--and the few civil laws that are there tend to be reworked in line with Deuteronomy's humanity.

在申命记中的大部分中并不饱含民法的内容,它倾向于关注宗教道德的规定,某种以色列人的绝对的律法，而民法的存在,倾向于和申命记中的人道主义保持一致。

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In other words, as the judge said, what's always moral isn't necessarily against the law and while I don't think that necessity justifies theft or murder or any illegal act, at some point your degree of necessity does, in fact, exonerate you from any guilt.

换言之，正如法官常说的，情有可原，未必不可法外容情,当然我不认为，一句情有可原,就能为盗窃，谋杀以及其他违法行为正名，但有时，情有可原的程度,确实可能法外容情，赦免你的罪行。

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And so the pagan picture of an amoral universe of just competing powers, good and evil, Kaufman says, is transformed into a picture of a moral cosmos. The highest law is the will of God and that imposes a morality upon the structure of the universe.

在异教观念中，一个充满了权力斗争，善神与恶神对抗的，非道德宇宙，变成了,一个道德的宇宙，上帝的旨意是最高的法律,它给宇宙的结构添加了道德这一概念。

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