来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：美国革命第3集第3集》

why you have not gone to hell since you have sat here.

为何你现在坐在这里却没有进入地狱
Oh, sinner, consider the fearful danger you are in.

罪人啊想想你身处的危险境地
You hang by a slender thread

你命悬一线
with the flames of divine wrath flashing about it,

上帝的怒火燃烧闪烁
ready every moment to singe it and burn it asunder,

你随时可能就此坠入火海掉落地狱
and you have no interest in any mediator

但你不仅对调停者毫无兴趣
and nothing to lay hold of save yourself,

也没有什么可以抓住自救的东西
nothing to keep off the flames of wrath,

没有什么可以阻挡上帝的怒火
nothing of your own, nothing that you have ever done,

你无计可施无法用曾经的丰功伟绩
nothing that you can do to induce God to spare you one moment."

或做任何事来劝服上帝饶你片刻
I think--wow, that's sermonizing.

我想那就是布道
That's "pow" in-your-face sermonizing.

真是强有力的说教