Justice is a name, for certain moral requirements, which, regarded collectively, stand higher in the scale of social utility and are, therefore, of more paramount obligation than any others."

公正，对于一定的道德要求而言，从整体看来，在社会总功利的范畴内，更高等,因此也高于其它任何义务“

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

You may think you've gotten away with something, but every act of social exploitation, every act of moral corruption, pollutes the sanctuary more and more until such time as God is driven out entirely and human society is devoured by its own viciousness and death-dealing.

犯了罪的人也许认为自己侥幸逃过一劫，然而他对所作的每一个行为，每一次的道德堕落，都会越来越玷污圣所,知道有一天上帝完全弃圣所而去,人类社会充斥着我们自身的邪恶和毁灭行为。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

And once we rid ourselves of the burden of historicity, we're free to appreciate the stories for what they are: powerful, powerful narratives that must be read against the literary conventions of their time, and whose truths are social, political, moral and existential.

曾经我们将自己从史实性的负担中解放出来，我们,以故事原本的样子自由地欣赏它们：强大的，强大的叙事,必须能冲破那个时代的文学惯例和社会、政治、,道德及实存的真实而被解读。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选