159、要明白这些事是什么情况并不容易，除非知道属天人的状态是何性质。属天人的状态具有这种性质：内在人完全不同于外在人，事实上如此不同，以至于属天人明白什么是属于内在人的，什么是属于外在人的，主又如何通过内在人掌管外在人。但这属天人的后代渴望属于外在人的自我，所以他们的状态发生如此改变，以至于他们不再明白内在人与外在人之间的任何区别，反以为内在人与外在人为一。这种感知就是渴望自我的结果。
New Century Edition
Cooper(2008,2013)
[NCE]159. It is not easy to perceive how the situation stands with all this unless one knows what heavenly people's state is like — that their inner being is distinguished from their outer being. The distinction is clear enough that they can tell what belongs to their inner and what to their outer being. They can also tell how the Lord uses the inner being to regulate the outer.
But the condition of this later generation changed because of their desire for autonomy, which belongs to the outer being. They no longer perceived the distinction between their inner and outer beings; for them it was as if the inner and outer were one. This perception is a result of the desire for autonomy.
Potts(1905-1910) 159
159. But it is not easy to perceive how the case is with these things unless the state of the celestial man is understood. In the celestial man the internal man is distinct from the external, indeed so distinct that the celestial man perceives what belongs to the internal man, and what to the external, and how the external man is governed through the internal by the Lord. But the state of the posterity of this celestial man, in consequence of desiring their Own, which belongs to the external man, was so changed that they no longer perceived the internal man to be distinct from the external, but imagined the internal to be one with the external, for such a perception takes place when man inclines to his Own.
Elliott(1983-1999) 159
159. It is not easy to perceive however how these matters can be so unless the nature of the state of the celestial man is known. The state of the celestial man is such that the internal man is quite distinct from the external, so distinct in fact that he perceives what belongs to the internal man and what to the external man, and how the external man is governed by the Lord through the internal. But because his descendants desired the proprium, which belongs to the external man, their state became so altered that they no longer perceived any distinction between the internal man and the external. Instead they perceived the internal man as being one with the external, for this is what perception comes to be once man desires the proprium.
Latin(1748-1756) 159
159. Sed quomodo haec se habeant, non facile percipitur nisi sciatur qualis est status caelestis hominis; status caelestis hominis est talis ut internus homo sit distinctus ab externo, et quidem ita ut percipiat quae sunt interni et quae sunt externi et quomodo externus per internum regatur a Domino: at status hujus posteritatis, quia cupivit proprium, quod est externi hominis, mutatus est ita ut non amplius perceperit internum hominem distinctum esse ab externo, sed quasi quod internus esset unus cum externo: nam talis perceptio fit cum proprium cupitur.