He throws his high prophetic talents into the construction ; of the Saint Peter speech; and in 1645, historical circumstances being what they were, he was able to look back at this passage and actually claim that it had been a genuinely prophetic utterance.

他把自己预示的才能投入在,圣彼得的演说之中;,在164年，历史背景如此复杂，他能够重新回顾这段,并且做出一段真诚的预知性的论调。

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Whereas most utterances purport to be saying something true about the actual state of things in the world, literary utterance is under no such obligation, the argument goes, and ought properly to be understood as fiction making it up as opposed to referring.

大多数言辞都是对事物的真实状况的,真实反映，而这种观点认为，文学没有这个义务，应该把文学理解为小说,它是虚构而不是实指。

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