The similes work not to sew everything up but make it impossible for us to maintain anything like the official position on a moral distinction between heavenly good and satanic evil.

这些比喻不是为了简单的拼凑，而是让我们不能,维持住任何天堂之善与撒旦之恶之间的,清晰的官方界限。

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So he offers a series of arguments for that conclusion, for that position, and starting next time, we'll work our way through those arguments.

因而他给出一系列论证,来证明这个结论,证明这个立场,下节课开始,我们将讨论这些论证

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