1385# 有些属于皮肤区域，特别是鳞片皮肤的灵，他们渴望对一切事物进行推理，不能直接领受什么是善和真。事实上，他们越是推理，直接领受真与善的能力就越弱。他们将智慧的本质归结为推理，并以此显示自己的聪明。他们被告知，天使的智慧是在不经推理的情况下直接领受事物是否良善和真实，但他们无法理解这种直接领受的可能性。这些人在肉身生活中通过科学和哲学的方式混淆了真理和良善，并以此显得比其他人更博学。然而，由于他们从未从圣经中掌握任何真理的基本原则，因此他们比其他人缺乏常识。
1385、有些灵人属于皮肤区域，尤其是鳞状皮肤。他们想推理一切，却没有对何为良善和真理的感知。事实上，他们推理得越多，感知得就越少。他们认为智慧在于推理，并且这样做是为了显得他们有智慧。我告诉他们说，天使的智慧在于感知某个事物是不是良善或真理，无需推理；但他们无法理解这种感知存在的可能性。他们就是那些活在肉身时用科学理论和哲学论证来混淆真理和良善，由此觉得自己比其他人更有知识的人；但他们没有先从圣言掌握真理的任何基本观念，因此比任何人都缺乏常识。
New Century Edition
Cooper(2008,2013)
[NCE]1385. There are spirits belonging to the region of the skin (particularly the squamous layer) who want to argue everything.{*1} They do not perceive what is good or true, and in fact the more they argue, the less they perceive it. They identify wisdom with sophistry, which they count on to make them seem wise.{*2} I told them that the role of angelic wisdom is to perceive whether a thing is good or true without sophistic reasoning, but they cannot grasp the possibility that this kind of perception exists. They are the same people that used the academic and philosophical disciplines during bodily life to cast confusion over truth and goodness and as a result seemed to themselves to be more knowledgeable than others. (They had not started with any valid assumptions taken from the Word.) Consequently, they do not have much common sense.
Footnotes:
{*1} The idea that the spirits belong to the region of the skin can be understood in light of Swedenborg's claim that heaven exists in the form of a human being; see note 2 in 947. These particular spirits are mentioned again in 5556. [Editors]
{*2} The Latin here is somewhat cryptic, if not actually defective: in ratiocinatione ponentes sapientiam, utque videantur, literally, " [they are] placing wisdom in sophistry, and so that they may seem." A similar passage in Spiritual Experiences (Swedenborg 1998-2002) 3703 says in ratiocinatione solum ponens, ut videatur aliis quod sapiens, " [one is] placing in sophistry alone [the hope] that it may seem to others that one is wise." Compare also Secrets of Heaven 5556. [LHC, SS]
Potts(1905-1910) 1385
1385. There are spirits who belong to the province of the skin, especially the scaly skin, who desire to reason about everything; they have no perception of what is good and true; indeed the more they reason, the less they perceive; they make wisdom consist in reasoning, and on this base their claim to seem wise.* They have been told that it is of angelic wisdom to perceive without reasoning whether a thing is good and true; but they do not apprehend that such perception is possible. These are they who in the life of the body had confused truth and good by means of matters of knowledge and of philosophy, and thereby had seemed to themselves to be pre-eminently learned; but as they had not previously adopted any principles of truth from the Word, they have less common sense than others. * Compare Arcana 5556, and Spiritual Experiences 3703. [REVISER.]
Elliott(1983-1999) 1385
1385. There are spirits who belong to the province of the skin, especially its scaly area, who wish to reason about everything, but who have no perception of what good or truth is. Indeed, the more they go on reasoning the less they perceive. They identify reasoning with wisdom; and they do this so that they may appear wise. They have been told that angelic wisdom involves perceiving whether a thing is good or true without reasoning about it, but they have no conception of the possibility of a perception such as this. They are people who during their lifetime had thrown truth and good into confusion by means of scientific and philosophical arguments, and in so doing had seemed to themselves to be more learned than everybody else; but they had not in the first place grasped from the Word any basic ideas of truth, as a result of which they possess less common sense than anybody else
Latin(1748-1756) 1385
1385. Sunt spiritus qui ad provinciam cutis imprimis squamosae pertinent, qui de omnibus volunt ratiocinari, nihil percipientes quid bonum et verum, immo quo magis ratiocinantur eo minus percipiunt, in ratiocinatione ponentes sapientiam, utque videantur; iis dictum quod sapientiae angelicae sit percipere num bonum et verum absque ratiocinatione; sed ii non capiunt quod dabilis talis perceptio; sunt illi qui in vita corporis confuderant verum et bonum per scientifica et philosophica, et inde visi sibi doctiores aliis, nec prius ulla principia veri captarunt ex Verbo; quibus inde minus sensus communis.