If we had been thinking -- and some of us may well have been thinking and we were right to think provisionally -that Satan was a character that we could actually identify with, if we had been thinking that Satan was in any way a perfect character with some sort of justifiable claim -these thoughts are now being corrected by the means, by the mechanism, of the simile.

如果我们在思考--有些人已经在考虑这些问题,我们的确应该暂时想一想,-撒旦是一个的确可以，如果我们想过撒旦是,一个应当被公正对待的完美的角色的话,-这些想法目前已经得到了，这个机制和比喻的纠正。

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