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I recognize this, in effect, when I go on to write that "the entire reality of Jesus' history -- at —at any rate, as it is presented to us in the Gospels -- is —is simply a transparent means of representing a certain possibility for understanding human existence" (186; italics added). Clearly, the qualification, "as it is presented to us in the Gospels," can only mean, in the first instance, as it is taken by those who re-present it to us in the gospels.

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