| 单词 | divine punishment |
| 释义 | divine punishment But then the baddies - presumably as some sort of divine punishment - turn into gold themselves. Times, Sunday Times For some contemporaries, the lingering sickness that left him virtually bedridden for the last five years of his life was divine punishment for his 'pride and presumption'. The Times Literary Supplement Writers at the time assumed that this pagan invasion was the monks' divine punishment for (among other things) having allowed their hair and beards to grow too long. Times, Sunday Times In this view, people needed salvation from the divine punishment that these offences would bring, since nothing they could do could repay the honour debt. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Divine punishment was rehabilitative, not penal, and designed to reform the person. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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