From these things , i began to instruct him in the know ledge of the true god : i told him that the great maker of all things liv d up there , pointing up towards heaven : that he governs the world by the same power and providence by which he had made it : that he was omnipotent , could do every thing for us , give every thing to us , take every thing from us ; and thus by degrees i open d his eyes 从这些事情入手，我逐渐教导他，使他认识真正的神是上帝。我指着天空对他说，万物的伟大创造者就住在天上，并告诉他，上帝用神力和神意创造了世界，治理着世界。我还告诉他，上帝是万能的，他能为我们做任何事情，他能把一切都赐予我们，也能把一切从我们手里夺走。
Instead of the old aim , the will of the deity , that to the old historians seemed the end of the movements of peoples , such as the gauls , the greeks , and the romans , modern history has advanced aims of its ownthe welfare of the french , the german , or the english people , or its highest pitch of generalisation , the civilisation of all humanity , by which is usually meant the peoples inhabiting a small , northwestern corner of the great mother - earth 代替从前迎合神意的犹太希腊罗马等民族的目的古代史学家认为这就是人类活动的目的，现代史学家还提出他们的目的是为法国人德国人英国人的福祉，采用最为抽象的概念：为全人类文明的福祉，而全人类这里一般是指仅占大陆西北角一小块地方的各民族。
But the oracle made no sign of opposition , either as i was leaving my house and going out in the morning , or when i was going up into this court , or while i was speaking , at anything which i was going to say ; and yet i have often been stopped in the middle of a speech ; but now in nothing i either said or did touching this matter has the oracle opposed me 现在今天这件事对我来讲好像应该是最后的和最大的坏事情了，但是他没有一点阻止我的迹象，不管是我早上离开家的时候，还是我来到法庭，或者在我讲话的时候，任何跟这件事有关的事情都没有被神意阻止，这能是什么意思呢？
That we did not know by what light and law these should be condemn d ; but that as god was necessarily , and by the nature of his being , infinitely holy and just , so it could not be , but that if these creatures were all sentenc d to absence from himself , it was on account of sinning against that light which , as the scripture says , was a law to themselves , and by such rules as their consciences would acknowledge to be just , tho the foundation was not discover d to us : and 2d 但我终于打消了这种想法，并得出了以下的结论：第一，我们不知道上帝根据什么神意和律法来给这些人定罪。上帝既然是神，他必然是无限神圣，无限公正的。假如上帝作出判决，不把他的教诲赐给这些人，那一定是因为他们违反了上帝的教诲，也就是违反了圣经上所说的他们自己的律法而上帝的判决，也是以他们的良心所承认的法则为标准的，虽然这些法则所依据的原则还没有被我们了解。
