N.T. Wright, Jesus and the Victory of God

"This, then, was how Jesus envisaged the messianic victory over the real enemy. The satan had taken up residence in Jerusalem, not merely in Rome, and was seeking to pervert the chosen nation and the holy place into becoming a parody of themselves, a pseudo-chosen people intent on defeating the world with the world's methods, a pseudo-holy place seeking to defend itself against the world rather than to be the city set on a hill, shining its light on the world."
N.T. Wright, Jesus and the Victory of God, 608.

라이트는 '코어'를 정확하게 집어냈다. 그의 상징화된 언어는, 비록 '나이브'하지만, 이 두 문장은 예수의 메시야적 행위를 설명한다. 두번째 문장을 시대적으로 읽어낼 수 있는 시각이, 예언자적 통찰이다.