If you lived during the time of Matthew himself, all of this stuff would seem fairly familiar to you, the idea that kings would come from far off and see a star, and that meant that the birth of someone great had been born.

如果你生活在马太的时代，你会觉得这些非常熟悉，比如国王沿着星星指引从远方而来，那说明有伟大的人物出生了。

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And because he knew that the past rigors had generated some hatred for Ramiro, to purge the spirits of that people and to gain them entirely to himself, he wishes to show that if any cruelty had been committed, Cesare this had not come from him, from Cesare, but from the harsh nature of his minister.

因为他清楚过去的严苛行为,已为，Ramiro，招来一些怨怼，因为他想要肃清那些人的意志,以期完全掌控他们，他希望,有任何的残忍的行为，那也不是他的主意而是，而是来自其官员的残暴本性。

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