护教论者

There were countless variations of themes such as the preexistent Logos or the concept of adoption, but they provide some sense of the ways the early Apologists carried out their task of contributing to the definition of the essence of their Jesus-focused yet monotheistic faith.

有数不尽的变异主题，例如是先存的逻各斯，或者是收养的概念，但它们为致力于把他们信仰的耶稣定义为一神教信仰的护教论者提供了一些认识途径。

Some of the writers of the New Testament and more of the Apologists, late 1st- and 2nd-century reflectors on the meaning of this faith in both the Jewish and Greek contexts, saw Jesus as the "preexistent Logos."

新约的一些作者和大多数的护教论者，在公元一世纪末和二世纪反映在这种信仰的意义探讨上，既在犹太文献，也在希腊文献里面，把耶稣看成是"先存的逻各斯"。

Christian Apologists began to speak, both to the Jews and to the other believers in the Greco-Roman world, in terms that unfavourably compared their religions to Christianity.

基督教护教论者开始发言了，犹太人和其他信仰者都在希腊—罗马的世界里。他们的宗教与基督教相比起来，谈判显得不合时宜。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。