5、不过，若不靠着主，没有人能知道情况是这样。因此，有必要预先说明：蒙主的神性怜悯，几年来，我被允许持续不间断地与灵人并天使来往，听他们说话，反过来与他们说话。通过这种方式，我得以在来世听见并看见人们闻所未闻，甚至都想象不到的最奇妙的事物。在那个世界，我了解到灵人的不同类型，死后灵魂的状态，地狱，或不信者的悲惨状态，天堂，或忠信者的幸福状态，尤其整个天堂所承认的信之教义。蒙主的神性怜悯，我将在下文细述这些主题。
创世记1
1.起初，神创造天地。
2.地是空虚混沌，渊面黑暗；神的灵运行在水面上。
3.神说，要有光，就有了光。
4.神看光是好的，神就把光暗分开了。
5.神称光为昼，称暗为夜。有晚上，有早晨，这是头一日。
6.神说，诸水中间要有一个穹苍，把水和水分开。
7.神就造出穹苍，将穹苍以下的水、穹苍以上的水分开了；事就这样成了。
8.神称穹苍为天。有晚上，有早晨，是第二日。
9.神说，天下的水要聚在一处，使旱地露出来；事就这样成了。
10.神称旱地为地，称水的聚处为海。神看着是好的。
11.神说，地要长出嫩草，就是结种子的草本，和会结果子、果子里有种子的果树，在地上各从其类；事就这样成了。
12.于是地长出嫩草和结种子的草本，各从其类；会结果子、果子里有种子的树木，各从其类；神看着是好的。
13.有晚上，有早晨，是第三日。
14.神说，天上穹苍中要有光体，可以分昼夜，作记号，定节令，日子，年岁。
15.它们要在天上穹苍中发光，照亮地上；事就这样成了。
16.于是神造了两个大光，大光管昼，小光管夜；又造众星。
17.神把它们摆列在天上穹苍中，照亮地上，
18.昼夜管理，分别光暗；神看着是好的。
19.有晚上，有早晨，是第四日。
20.神说，水要滋生爬行物，就是活物；要有飞鸟飞在地上，在天上穹苍的表面之上。
21.神就造出大鱼，和诸水滋生的各样爬行的活物，各从其类；又造出各样有翅膀的飞鸟，各从其类；神看着是好的。
22.神就赐福给它们，说，要繁殖增多，充满海中的水；飞鸟也要增多在地上。
23.有晚上，有早晨，是第五日。
24.神说，地要生出活物来，各从其类；牲畜、爬行物、地上的野兽，各从其类；事就这样成了。
25.于是神造出地上的野兽，各从其类；牲畜，各从其类；地面上的一切爬行物，各从其类；神看着是好的。
26.神说，我们要照着我们的形像，按着我们的样式造人；他们要管理海里的鱼、空中的鸟、牲畜和全地，并爬在地上的一切爬行物。
27.神就照着自己的形像创造人，乃是照着神的形像创造他；祂创造了他们，有男有女。
28.神就赐福给他们，神对他们说，要繁殖增多，遍满这地，征服它，也要管理海里的鱼、空中的鸟，和爬在地上的一切活物。
29.神说，看哪，我将整个地面上一切结种子的草本和一切有果子的树木都赐给你们；结种子的树木将给你们作食物。
30.至于地上的各种野兽和空中的各种飞鸟，并地上爬行有活的灵魂在里面的各种活物，我将一切绿色的草本赐给它们作食物；事就这样成了。
31.神看祂所造的一切，看哪，都甚好。有晚上，有早晨，是第六日。
New Century Edition
Cooper(2008,2013)
[NCE]5. But without the Lord's aid not a soul can possibly see that this is the case. As a result, it is proper to reveal in these preliminaries that the Lord in his divine mercy has granted me the opportunity for several years now, without break or interruption, to keep company with spirits and angels, to hear them talking, and to speak with them in turn.{*1} Consequently I have been able to see and hear the most amazing things in the other life, which have never before come into people's awareness or thought.
In that world I have been taught about the different kinds of spirits, the situation of souls after death, hell (or the regrettable state of the faithless), and heaven (or the blissful state of the faithful). In particular I have learned what is taught in the faith acknowledged by the whole of heaven. All of these topics will, with the Lord's divine mercy, be explored further in what follows.
Potts(1905-1910) 5
5. That this is really the case no one can possibly know except from the Lord. It may therefore be stated in advance that of the Lord's Divine mercy it has been granted me now for some years to be constantly and uninterruptedly in company with spirits and angels, hearing them speak and in turn speaking with them. In this way it has been given me to hear and see wonderful things in the other life which have never before come to the knowledge of any man, nor into his idea. I have been instructed in regard to the different kinds of spirits; the state of souls after death; hell, or the lamentable state of the unfaithful; heaven, or the blessed state of the faithful; and especially in regard to the doctrine of faith which is acknowledged in the universal heaven; on which subjects, of the Lord's Divine mercy, more will be said in the following pages.
CHAPTER 1*
1. In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2. And the earth was a void and emptiness, and thick darkness was upon the faces of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the faces of the waters. 3. And God said, Let there be light, and there was light. 4. And God saw the light, that it was good; and God distinguished between the light and the darkness. 5. And God called the light day, and the darkness He called night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. 6. And God said, Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it distinguish between the waters in the waters. 7. And God made the expanse, and made a distinction between the waters which were under the expanse, and the waters which were above the expanse; and it was so. 8. And God called the expanse heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day. 9. And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together in one place, and let the dry [land] appear; and it was so. 10. And God called the dry [land] earth, and the gathering together of the waters called He seas; and God saw that it was good. 11. And God said, Let the earth bring forth the tender herb, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree bearing fruit after its kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth; and it was so. 12. And the earth brought forth the tender herb, the herb yielding seed after its kind, and the tree bearing fruit, whose seed was in itself, after its kind; and God saw that it was good. 13. And the evening and the morning were the third day. 14. And God said, Let there be luminaries in the expanse of the heavens, to distinguish between the day and the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and for years. 15. And let them be for luminaries in the expanse of the heavens, to give light upon the earth; and it was so. 16. And God made two great luminaries, the greater luminary to rule by day, and the lesser luminary to rule by night; and the stars. 17. And God set them in the expanse of the heavens, to give light upon the earth;
18. And to rule in the day, and in the night, and to distinguish between the light and the darkness; and God saw that it was good. 19. And the evening and the morning were the fourth day. 20. And God said, Let the waters cause to creep forth the creeping thing, the living soul; and let fowl fly above the earth upon the faces of the expanse of the heavens. 21. And God created great whales, and every living soul that creepeth, which the waters caused to creep forth after their kinds, and every winged fowl after its kind; and God saw that it was good. 22. And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and the fowl shall be multiplied in the earth. 23. And the evening and the morning were the fifth day. 24. And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living soul after its kind; the beast, and the thing moving itself, and the wild animal of the earth, after its kind; and it was so. 25. And God made the wild animal of the earth after its kind, and the beast after its kind, and everything that creepeth on the ground after its kind; and God saw that it was good. 26. And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the heavens, and over the beast, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 27. And God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him; male and female created He them. 28. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the heavens, and over every living thing that creepeth upon the earth. 29. And God said, Behold, I give you every herb bearing seed which is upon the faces of all the earth, and every tree in which is fruit; the tree yielding seed, to you it shall be for food. 30. And to every wild animal of the earth, and to every fowl of the heavens, and to everything that creepeth upon the earth wherein is a living soul, every green herb for food; and it was so. 31. And God saw everything that He had made, and behold it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day. * The Author, writing in Latin, has given his own translation, in that language, of the Hebrew and Greek texts of the Word, in which, for the sake of the spiritual sense, he has rendered the originals almost as literally as possible, and it has been deemed necessary to follow him in the translation of the present work into English, but with the endeavor to avoid any needless departure from the language of the English Bible. [Reviser.]
Elliott(1983-1999) 5
5. But unless he has it from the Lord no human being can possibly know that this is the situation. By way of introductory remarks therefore it can be disclosed that in the Lord's Divine mercy I have been allowed constantly and without interruption for several years now to share the experiences of spirits and angels, to listen to them speaking and to speak to them myself. I have been allowed therefore to hear and see astounding things in the next life which have never come to any man's knowledge, nor even entered his imagination In that world I have learned about different kinds of spirits, about the state of souls after death, about hell (the miserable state of people who do not have faith), about heaven (the very happy state of those who do have faith), and above all else about the doctrine of the faith that is acknowledged in the whole of heaven. In the Lord's Divine mercy more will be told about these matters in what follows.
Latin(1748-1756) 5
5. Sed quod ita se res habeat, nemo mortalium usquam scire potest nisi ex Domino; quare in antecessum licet manifestare quod ex Divina Domini Misericordia concessum sit nunc per aliquot annos jugiter et continue interesse consortio spirituum et angelorum, eos audire loquentes, et cum iis vicissim loqui; inde datum audire et videre stupenda quae in altera vita, quae nusquam ad alicujus hominis cognitionem, nec in ejus ideam, venerunt; instructus ibi sum de spirituum diversis generibus; de statu animarum post mortem; de inferno, seu statu lamentabili infidelium; de caelo, seu statu felicissimo fidelium; imprimis de Doctrina fidei quae agnoscitur in universo caelo; de quibus, ex Divina Domini Misericordia, plura in sequentibus.CAPUT PRIMUM 1. In principio creavit Deus{1} caelum et terram. @1 In both A and I we find Jehovah and Deus in capitals in the complete chapters from The Word, but in ordinary type in the succeeding explanatory portions of the work.$ 2. Et terra erat vacuitas et inanitas, et caligo super faciebus abyssi; et Spiritus DEI se motitans super facies aquarum. 3. Et dixit DEUS, Sit lux, et facta est lux. 4. Et vidit DEUS lucem, quod bona; et distinxit Deus inter lucem et inter tenebras. 5. Et vocavit DEUS lucem, diem; et tenebras vocavit noctem Et fuit vespera, et fuit mane, dies primus. 6. Et dixit DEUS, Sit expansum in medio aquarum, et sit distinguens inter aquas aquis. 7. Et fecit DEUS expansum illud, et distinxit inter aquas, qua- sub expanso, et inter aquas, quae supra expansum; et factum ita. 8. Et vocavit DEUS expansum, caelum. Et fuit vespera, et tui mane, dies secundus. 9. Et dixit DEUS, Congregentur aquae sub caelo ad locum unum et appareat arida; et factum ita. 10. Et vocavit DEUS aridam, terram, et congregationem aquarum vocavit maria: et vidit DEUS quod bonum. 11. Et dixit DEUS, Progerminare faciat terra herbam teneram, herbam seminificantem semen, arborem fructus facientem fructum secundum speciem suam, in quo semen ejus, super terra; et factum ita. 12. Et produxit terra herbam teneram, herbam seminificantem semen, secundum speciem suam, et arborem facientem fructum, in quo semen ejus, secundum speciem suam; et vidit DEUS quod bonum 13. Et fuit vespera, et fuit mane, dies tertius. 14. Et dixit DEUS, Sit luminaria in expanso caelorum, ad distinguendum inter diem, et inter noctem; et erunt in signa, et in stata tempora, et in dies, et annos. 15. Et erunt in luminaria in expanso caelorum, ad lucem dandum super terra; et factum ita. 16. Et fecit DEUS duo luminaria magna, luminare magnum ac dominandum die, et luminare minus ad dominandum nocte, et stellas 17. Et posuit illa DEUS in expanso caelorum, ad lucem dandum super terra;
18. Et ad dominandum in die, et in nocte, et ad distinguendum inter lucem, et inter tenebras; et vidit DEUS quod bonum. 19. Et fuit vespera, et fiat mane, dies quartus. 20. Et dixit DEUS, Prorepere faciant aquae reptile, animam viventem; et avis volitet super terra, super faciebus expansi caelorum. 21. Et creavit DEUS cetos magnos; et omnem animam viventem reptantem, quam prorepere fecerunt aquae, secundum species suas; et omnem avem alae secundum speciem suam; et vidit Deus quod bonum. 22. Et benedixit iis DEUS, dicendo, Fructificate et multiplicate vos, et implete aquas in maribus; et avis multiplicabitur in terra. 23. Et fuit vespera, et fuit mane, dies quintus. 24. Et dixit DEUS, Producat terra animam viventem secundum speciem suam; bestiam et se movens, et feram istius terrae secundum speciem suam; et factum ita. 25. Et fecit DEUS feram terrae secundum speciem suam; et bestiam secundum speciem suam, et omne reptans humi secundum speciem suam; et vidit DEUS quod bonum. 26. Et dixit DEUS, Faciamus hominem in imaginem Nostram, secundum similitudinem Nostram; et dominabuntur in pisces maris, et in avem caelorum, et in bestiam, et in omnem terram, et in omne reptans, quod reptat super terra. 27. Et creavit DEUS hominem in imaginem Ipsius, in imaginem DeI creavit illum; masculum et feminam creavit illos. 28. Et benedixit illis Deus, et dixit illis DEUS, Fructificate et multiplicate vos, et implete terram, et subjugate eam; et dominamini in pisces maris, et in avem caelorum, et in omne vivum reptans super terra. 29. Et dixit DEUS, Ecce, do vobis omnem herbam seminificantem semen, quae super faciebus totius terrae, et omnem arborem, in qua fructus; arbor producens semen vobis erit in cibum. 30. Et omni ferae terrae, et omni avi caelorum, et omni reptanti super terra, in quo anima vivens, omne viride herbae in escam; et factum ita. 31. Et vidit DEUS omne quod fecit, et ecce bonum valde. Et fuit vespera, et fuit mane, dies sextus.