502# 这三个教会，“人、塞特和以挪士”，构成了上古教会体系；直到那种在最初教会中独有的直接领受真与善的完美能力，在后续的教会中普遍地减弱并变得平凡。这种完美体现在能够清晰地进行直接领受的能力上，但当这种能力不再那么清晰而是变得更加普通时，它便开始衰减。于是，原先更为清晰的直接领受能力就被一种更模糊的领受所取代，开始逐渐消失。
502、这三个教会，即亚当、塞特和以挪士，构成上古教会。尽管如此，它们在感知方面的完美程度却不同。在这些教会中，第一个教会的感知力在后续教会中逐渐减弱，变得越来越笼统，就像前面所提到的果实或种子，以及脑一样。完美在于极为清晰的感知力，当感知越来越不清晰，越来越笼统时，感知力就逐渐减弱。这时，模糊的感知就取代清晰的感知，并因此开始消失。
New Century Edition
Cooper(2008,2013)
[NCE]502. These three churches — the human, Seth, and Enosh — constitute the earliest church, although there were differences in how perfectly each of the three perceived things. The first church's perceptivity lessened in all the ensuing churches and became more general, as just described in regard to the fruit or seed, or the brain. Perfection consists in the ability to perceive minute distinctions, and this perfection decreases when the ability is not so refined but more general. A dimmer kind of perception then takes the place of the clearer kind, and in this way perception begins to disappear.
Potts(1905-1910) 502
502. These three churches, "Man" "Seth" and "Enosh" constitute the Most Ancient Church, but still with a difference of perfection as to perceptions: the perceptive faculty of the first church gradually diminished in the succeeding churches, and became more general, as observed concerning fruit or its seed, and concerning the brain. Perfection consists in the faculty of perceiving distinctly, which faculty is diminished when the perception is less distinct and more general; an obscurer perception then succeeds in the place of that which was clearer, and thus it begins to vanish away.
Elliott(1983-1999) 502
502. Those three churches - Man, Seth, and Enosh - constitute the Most Ancient Church. Nevertheless they had different degrees of perfection as regards perception. The perceptivity found in the first of these Churches everywhere grew less in those that followed until it became something rather general, in the way mentioned above concerning fruit or seed, or concerning the brain. Perfection consists in an ability to perceive very clearly, and is diminished when perception is less clear and more general. At that point vaguer perception takes the place of clearer and so starts to disappear.
Latin(1748-1756) 502
502. Tres illae Ecclesiae, 'Homo, Sheth et Enosh,' constituunt Antiquissimam, usque cum differentia perfectionis quoad perceptione perceptivum primae Ecclesiae passim diminutum est in sequentibus et factum communius; sicut, ut dictum, de fructu aut semine, aut de cerebro; perfectio consistit in facultate distincte percipiendi, quae diminuitur cum non ita distincte sed communius; tunc loco clarioris perceptionis succedit obscurior, et sic incipit evanescere.