That people would disappear as a distinctive entity, and in effect, that is what happened to the ten tribes of the northern kingdom to a large degree.

原本独特的性质逐渐消失，实际上，从很大程度上看,这就是北边十部落消失的原因。

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With the rise of Christianity, western religion came to be defined to a large degree by the confession of, or the intellectual assent to, certain doctrinal points of belief.

随着基督教的兴起，西方宗教被定义成,很大程度上指被解释为，或被知识分子一致认可为，对特定教义的信仰。

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