He would have been what Nietzsche in an interesting precursor text calls "historical man."

他就像是尼采在他的一篇有趣的,有关先驱者的文章里提到的“历史上的人“

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It illustrates again this idea that how much of this ancient text is it important for you to know, on its own terms,in its historical context in the first century, or how is it important for you to know in the way it's been interpreted for the last 2000 years?

这又一次说明了,你对这部古代文本的了解，是对其本身100年间历史脉络的了解，还是在过去2000年间被解读的,哪个更为重要？

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