来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：新约及其历史背景 第2集 第2集》

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  And the oldest one of those letters is 1 Thessalonians,
  书信中最早的是《帖撒罗尼迦前书》
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  probably, dated to around the year 50 or thereabouts.
  大概成书于主后50年左右
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  Pretty quickly, though, different churches,
  很快地 不同的教会
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  probably Paul's churches, initially, started sending
  也许起初是保罗所在的教会
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  around copies of Paul's letters.
  开始分发保罗书信
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  Remember, there's no printing press in the ancient world.
  要知道在古代是没有印刷机的
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  Whenever your church would get a copy of
  不管教会什么时候收到保罗的书信
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  one of these letters from Paul, you would have scribes,
  都会由抄经者抄写
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  often slaves, because slaves were especially
  通常他们是奴隶 因为当时奴隶
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  trained to be scribes.
  是专用来训练成抄写员的
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  They would take that letter,
  他们收到了信
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  and they would make a copy of it.
  就开始传抄