Bishops at this time,especially of major cities, would sometimes send around what we call a paschal letter, an Easter letter. In which they'd give instructions or different kinds of things to their churches.

当时的主教，特别是主要城市的主教，会发出所谓的复活节书信，信里写着给其他教会的指示,或者其他事情。

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But after that it'll be writing about whatever you want and sometimes people feel a little out to sea not knowing exactly what we're expecting, so those instructions that we send out will be helpful.

之后就不用了,只需要写想法就可以,有时候人们会有点不知所措,不清楚我们要的是什么,所以我们给出的说明是有帮助的

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