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。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

So if that was the reason they were included in the ancient world,it's not the reason they're still in now, because modern scholars don't believe the apostles actually wrote all of these texts in the New Testament.

如果那就是它们在古代被选上的原因,它不是现代人所认为的原因，因为现代学者认为,新约里的书并非全为使徒所写。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

And some of them don't have the Revelation of John in their New Testament.

其中一些教会的新约里,没有约翰启示录。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

the people writing the New Testament didn't know they were writing the New Testament.

撰写新约的作者并不知道,他们写的东西会成为新约。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选