1844# ”在不是自己的地上“象征在那里的教会，看似并不由那些处于仁义与信仰之中的人组成。这种解释基于“地”象征教会的含义（参得566节，662节，1066节，1068节）。如今，人们往往只从信仰的教义角度来宣扬教会，并依此来界定主的教会，却忽视了信徒的实际生活方式：不论是滋生的内部仇恨，还是彼此之间野兽般的撕扯、掠夺、以及对名誉、荣耀和财富的剥夺，甚至是在内心否定所有神圣的事物。然而，真正的教会并不存在于这样的人之中，而是存在于那些真正爱主、像爱自己一样爱邻舍的人之中，这些人有良心，对上述种种恶行深恶痛绝。在这种环境中，这些真正的信徒被视作“寄居的”，经常遭受辱骂和迫害，或被看待为简单、卑微和不值一提的人。现在所说的“”你的种将在地上成为寄居的人”就是这个意思。
1844、“不是自己的地上”表示那里会有一个可以说不是由那些拥有仁和信的人组成的教会。这从“地”的含义清楚可知，“地”是指教会（参看566，662，1066，1068节）。如今，人们只从信之教义的角度来谈论教会，并由此将主的教会区别开来，不关心人们过的是哪种生活：他们有没有心怀仇恨，像野兽一样彼此撕扯，互相抢劫，剥夺他人的名声、地位和财富，从心里否认任何圣物。然而，教会永远不可能存在于这种人里面；相反，它只存在于那些爱主并爱邻如己，有良心，反对和厌恶上述仇恨的人里面。但在前面所描述的那些人当中，这些人就像“外人”，受到尽可能的虐待和迫害，要么就被视为简单、卑贱、一文不值。这就是“你的种必在地上成为外人”所表示的。
New Century Edition
Cooper(2008,2013)
[NCE]1844. In a land that is not theirs symbolizes places where it would not seem as if the church belonged to those who had charity and faith. This can be seen from the symbolism of the earth as the church, as discussed in 566, 662, 1066, 1068.
Today people describe the church solely in terms of religious teachings, which they use as a means of distinguishing among the Lord's churches.{*1} They do not care how adherents of those churches live — whether they nurse hatred for each other, rip each other apart like wild animals, rob each other, strip each other of reputation and status and wealth, or privately deny all that is holy. Yet the church can never exist in such people. It exists instead in people who love the Lord, love their neighbor as themselves, have a conscience, and oppose the kinds of hatred mentioned. These people, though, are like foreigners among the others, who skewer and harass them as often as they can, or else look on them as sorry, contemptible simpletons. This, then, is what it means to say, "Your seed will be immigrants in the land."
Footnotes:
{*1} By "the Lord's churches" Swedenborg presumably means all the Christian denominations of his time. [RS]
Potts(1905-1910) 1844
1844. In a land which is not theirs. That this signifies where there is a church that is as it were not composed of those who are in charity and faith, is evident from the signification of "a land," as being the church (see n. 566, 662, 1066, 1067). At this day men speak of the church as existing from the mere doctrinals of faith, and thereby distinguish the churches of the Lord, not caring what life men live-whether they cherish inward hatreds, and tear one another like wild beasts, rob one another, and deprive others of reputation, honor, and wealth, and at heart deny whatever is holy. And yet with such there is no church at all; but the church is with those who love the Lord, and who love the neighbor as themselves, who have conscience, and are averse to such hatreds as have been mentioned. But among those previously described these men are like strangers, and are treated with the utmost possible abuse and persecution, or else are regarded as being simple, mean, and of no account. This then is what is meant by "thy seed shall be a stranger in the land."
Elliott(1983-1999) 1844
1844. 'In a land that is not theirs' means where there will be a Church which does not so to speak consist of people in whom charity and faith are present. This is clear from the meaning of 'the land' as the Church, dealt with in 566, 662, 1066, 1068. At the present day people speak of doctrinal matters of faith, these alone, as the things which make the Church; and it is on the basis of these that they distinguish the Lord's Churches from one another. They are not concerned about the kind of life people lead, whether or not they foment inner hatred and like wild animals tear one another apart, violently rob one another, deprive one another of reputation, position, and wealth, and at heart deny whatever is holy. The Church however does not exist in any way with people who are like this but with those who love the Lord and their neighbour as themselves, who have conscience, and who turn away from the kinds of hatred that have been mentioned. When the latter with whom the Church in fact exists are among the others described above they are like 'strangers', and they are subjected by these others to every possible insult and persecution, or are regarded by them as being simple, insignificant, and worthless. This then is what is meant by 'your seed will be strangers in the land'.
Latin(1748-1756) 1844
1844. 'In terra quae non illis': quod significet ubi Ecclesia, sicut non foret illorum qui in charitate et fide, constat ex significatione 'terrae' quod sit Ecclesia, de qua n. 566, 662, 1066, (x)1068. Hodie Ecclesiam praedicant ex solis doctrinalibus fidei, et ex illis distinguunt Ecclesias Domini, non curantes quali vita sint, sive odia intestina foveant, et sicut ferae unus alterum dilanient, spolient, deprivent fama, honore, opibus, et corde negent quicquid sanctum est; cum tamen apud tales nusquam est Ecclesia sed apud illos qui Dominum amant et proximum sicut semet, conscientiam habent, et talia odia de quibus dictum, aversantur; hi usque inter illos sunt sicut 'peregrini,' et eos quantum possunt, dicteriis laedunt et persequuntur, vel spectant illos sicut simplices, viles et nauci; hoc nunc est quod 'peregrinum erit semen tuum in terra.'