A particularly puritanical editor of Plato from the twentieth century writes in a footnote to that passage, "this is almost the only passage in Plato " that one would wish to blot out," his sensibilities were offended by this notion.

有一位道德特别崇高的编辑,在二十世纪编到柏拉图这个段落时,写了一句脚注，“这应是柏拉图书中唯一一段,让人想要擦掉的话“,他的感性受到那一段话的冒犯。

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Scholars have always been quick to point out that in both cases, This ark, this tevah, is in the words of one scholar "The instrument of salvation through perilous waters" waters that threaten to capsize it, and so blot out God's hopes and plans for his creatures.

学者们总是很快指出在这两个地方，这个方舟，tevah用一位学者的话说就是,“从恶水中获救的工具“,那些要倾覆它的水流，这也体现了上帝的希望和给创造物的安排。

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