THE Bible writer James did not direct this question to the soldiers of Rome’s legions, which were then waging wars of conquest; nor was he probing the motives behind the guerrilla fighting of the Jewish Sicarii, or Dagger Men, of the first century C.E.
منظور یعقوب از این سؤال جنگ سپاهیان روم برای کشورگشایی و یا جنگ‌های آزادی‌خواهانهٔ یهودیانِ به خنجر مسلّح در قرن اوّل نبود .‏