a historical order?

一个更符合历史的顺序的么
Is he talking about, I'm writing to you an account

他是不是说我现在的记录
that's more like what actually happened when it happened?

更接近当时实际发生的
That's the way this has sometimes been interpreted by people.

人们经常如此解释
As we'll see today that's not likely right

其实并不是这么一回事
because we can even tell when this author

因为看得出
is creatively shifting events around for his own purposes.

哪些是作者存有目的刻意为之
He's claiming to write an orderly account,

他声称按顺序提笔作书
but if he is claiming that he's giving us a more chronologically

如果他声称给了我们一个正确的时间顺序
accurate account then he's wrong,

那他就错了
as we'll see.

我们会说到这点
Probably he doesn't even mean that,

也可能他根本不是这个意思