as we've seen, establishing a fiction that works to place himself at the scene of a nativity that obviously occurs 1600 years and change before his own birth.

我们也看到了，他创建了一个虚构的景象,把自己放进了基督诞生的幻景中,而这些比他出生早1600年发生并不断在改变。

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