It's a set of images that couldn't be more foreign or more alien to the prophetic mode of the Old Testament prophets.

这是一组不能再背离旧约先知的形象的,一组比喻了。

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Okay. That's one way to read the simile, one way to make sense of this mention of the X, the Galileo figure.

这是理解这个比喻的一种方式，一种了解X，即伽利略的形象的方式。

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