238、然后描述了理性的性质，即：它同意了，由此给自己招来诅咒，变得如地狱一般，导致理性不再存留，只剩下推理（17节）。
New Century Edition
Cooper(2008,2013)
[NCE]238. The nature of this rational capacity is described too. It is said to have consented and in this way to have brought a curse on itself as well and become hellish, so that no rationality remained but only a skewed logic (verse 17).
Potts(1905-1910) 238
238. The quality of the rational is then described, in that it consented, and thus cursed itself, and became infernal, so that reason no longer remained, but ratiocination (verse 17).
Elliott(1983-1999) 238
238. The nature of the rational is then described, in that it conceded, and in so doing also brought a curse upon itself and became hellish, so that reason remained no longer, but only reasoning, verse 17.
Latin(1748-1756) 238
238. Tum rationale quale fuerit, quod consenserit, et sic quoque sibi maledixerit et infernale factum, ut non amplius ratio manserit sed ratiocinatio, vers. 17.