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Thus the concept of " a hermeneutics of suspicion" confuses the same two distinct steps in critical appropriation – -- interpretation and validation – -- that are confused, according to Marxsen, in the concept of "a historical-critical exegesis." Just as exegesis is one thing, criticism of the results of exegesis, something else, so interpretation of something is one thing, suspicion of what it is interpreted to mean, something else.

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