“Từ” đã không “tự cung cấp” theo kiểu mang theo nó Tặng lòng trung thành với Hoàng đế mới.
The “word” did not “offer itself” in a take-it-or-leave-it fashion, any more than Caesar’s heralds would have said, “If you’d like a new kind of imperial experience, you might like to try giving allegiance to the new emperor.
N.T. Wright, The Last Word: Beyond the Bible Wars to a New Understanding of the Authority of Scripture