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  1. Thus from the dawn of recorded history the scourge of God has ________(击败了那些狂妄者) and ________(让...匍匐在他的脚下) those who ________(冷酷无情地违抗主). Ponder this well, my friends, and fall on your knees.

  2. If today the plague is in your midst, that is because the hour has struck for ________(寻思/担忧). The ________(正义的) man need have no fear, but the evildoer ________(理应颤抖).

  3. My brothers, that fatal hunt is ________(正在发生/出现), and harrying our streets today.

  4. The first time this scourge appears in history, it was wielded to strike down the enemies of God. Pharaoh ________(让他自己对抗) the divine will, and the plague ________(迫使他屈服).

  5. In strict logic what came next did not seem to ________(按...的方式或方向发展/意译为有紧密关系) from this dramatic opening.

  6. Only as the sermon proceeded did it become apparent to the congregation that, by a skillful oratorical device, Father Paneloux had ________(仿佛当头一棒般，向他们道出了他整个讲道的主旨).

  7. Repentance was enough, men thought; nothing was forbidden. Everyone felt comfortably assured; when the day came, he would surely turn from his sins and repent. ________(在这期间), the easiest ________(行动方式/处理方法) was to surrender ________(过程中自始至终/一直); divine compassion would do the rest.

  8. Patient and watchful, ineluctable as the order of ________(人生的安排), ________(等待时机/耐心等待/等待更进一步的发展). No earthly power, nay, not even—________(记住我的话)—the vaunted might of human science can avail you to avert that hand once it is stretched toward you.

  9. Then Paneloux ________(挺直了身子), took a deep breath, and continued his sermon in a voice that gathered strength as it proceeded.