Again there is a biblical iconography behind this.

在此之后重复出现了圣经的图像
There are two instances that come to my mind.

我想到了两个情况
When demons are cast out by the apostles and sent into a herd of

当魔鬼被传道者们抛弃后投胎变成了一群猪
pigs, and the pigs go running off a cliff and die;

然后猪跑向一处悬崖最后摔死
that's one image.

这样一个画面
Another is the admonition not to throw your pearls before swine,

另一个则是条告诫不要对牛弹琴
not to preach to those who can't hear, or won't be perceptive.

不要对那些听不见或是无法理解你所说的话的人们说教
So these moments of landscape description offer up that

这些瞬间的景物描述迎合了
consistently Christian-inflected theory of the universe,

基督教关于宇宙一成不变的曲折的理论
that sense of transcendence as structure, as something that's

那种超凡的意识正如结构正如那些无情移动的事物
moving inexorably, that will take all time to complete.

将花毕生的时间来完成
It has a project; it has a teleology.

它有个项目有个目的论