252、“女人”表示教会。这从前面关于天上婚姻的说明（155节）清楚可知。天上的婚姻具有这种性质：天堂，因而教会通过其自我与主结合，甚至到了它们存在于自我本身里面的程度，因为没有自我，就没有结合。当主出于怜悯将纯真、平安和良善注入这自我时，它虽然仍看似自我，但现在是属天堂的，充满幸福（可参看164节）。从主所获得的如天堂一般的天使自我的性质与源于自己的如地狱一般的魔鬼自我的性质是无法形容的。两者的区别就像天堂与地狱的区别。
New Century Edition
Cooper(2008,2013)
[NCE]252. The meaning of the woman as the church can be seen from the heavenly marriage described above in 155. The heavenly marriage is a relationship in which heaven (and so the church) is united to the Lord through its sense of self. In fact heaven and the church are to be found in the feeling of independent existence, because without it there could never be union. When the Lord in his mercy infuses our selfhood with innocence, peace, and goodness, it still seems to be our own, but it becomes heavenly and full of the greatest blessings, as you may see above at 164.
I cannot yet say, though, what a heavenly, angelic identity received from the Lord is like, nor a hellish, diabolical identity generated by ourselves.{*1} The difference between them is like the difference between heaven and hell.
Footnotes:
{*1} Later on in the work Swedenborg does explore the nature of heavenly and hellish identity; see 694, 1044, 1049, 1594:5, 3812-3813, 3994:1, 5660:3, 8497. [LHC]
Potts(1905-1910) 252
252. That by the "woman" is meant the church, is evident from what was said above (n. 155) concerning the heavenly marriage. Such is the nature of the heavenly marriage, that heaven, and consequently the church, is united to the Lord by its Own, insomuch that these are in their Own, for without their Own there can be no union. When the Lord in mercy insinuates innocence, peace, and good into this Own, it still retains its identity, but becomes heavenly and most happy (as may be seen at n. 164). The quality of a heavenly and angelic Own from the Lord, and the quality of an Own, which, because from self, is infernal and diabolical, cannot be told. The difference is like that between heaven and hell.
Elliott(1983-1999) 252
252. The woman' is used to mean the Church. This becomes clear from the heavenly marriage, dealt with above in 155. The heavenly marriage is one in which heaven, and so the Church, is united to the Lord by means of the proprium, even to the extent of it existing within the proprium itself; for if there is no proprium the union does not exist. And when the Lord from His mercy instills into this proprium innocence, peace, and good, it still looks like the proprium, but it is now something heavenly and richly blessed; see what has been said already in 164. But the nature of the heavenly and angelic proprium obtained from the Lord on the one hand, and the nature of the hellish and devilish proprium deriving from self on the other, defies description. The difference is like that between heaven and hell.
Latin(1748-1756) 252
252. Quod per 'mulierem' intelligatur Ecclesia, ex conjugio caelesti constare potest, de quo supra n. 155. Conjugium caeleste tale est ut caelum, ita Ecclesia, uniatur Domino per proprium adeo ut sit in proprio; nam absque proprio non datur unio; in quod proprium cum Dominus ex misericordia insinuat innocentiam, pacem, bonum, tunc apparet usque ut proprium sed caeleste et felicissimum, ut videas prius n. 164. Sed quale proprium caeleste et angelicum quod a Domino, et quale proprium infernale et diabolicum quod a semet, nondum dici potest; talis est differentia qualis inter caelum et infernum.