Dont read something free of its context?

Question

What does that mean? My teacher asked us to respond on a document, and says when we read, dont read it free of its context.

Answer 1

What it means is that you need to consider the time and circumstances when it was written and what it meant then. In other words, do not take the document away from the time and place and circumstances when it was written and give it an interpretation "out of context."

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