It only becomes a question of knowing the object, of knowing it in and for itself, in its own terms, and not at all necessarily of learning from it, of being spoken to by it.

它仅仅是了解这个对象，了解这个对象本身，不一定是从对象中学习。

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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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