831、有些女人活着就是为了满足自己的属世倾向，只关心自己和世界，她们的整个生活及其快乐都专注在表面的端庄得体上。因此，她们在社交圈中比其他女人更受尊崇。她们通过实践和习惯学会了以社会认可的方式行事，好潜入别人的欲望和感官享乐。她们利用体面的伪装如此行，但目的是控制他人。结果，她们的生活变成了虚伪和欺骗的生活。她们和其他人一样常去教会，但只是为了表现自己的高尚和虔诚。此外，她们没有良心，并且只要不被发现，非常倾向于可耻行为和通奸。在来世，这类女人还是这样思想，不知道良心是什么，并嘲笑谈论良心的人。她们通过欺骗的手段，就是假装高尚、虔诚、怜悯和纯真来侵占别人的情感，无论这些情感是什么。每当外在约束被除去时，她们就冲进最可憎、最恶心的行为中。
这些女人在来世会变为女巫或巫婆。其中有些女人被称为塞壬。在来世，她们会熟练掌握世人所不知的把戏，像海绵一样吸收难以启齿的邪恶伎俩，而且非常聪明，很快就付诸实践。她们在来世学到的世人所不知的把戏包括这些：她们能仿佛在另一个地方说话，好叫她们的声音在那里听上去像是来自善灵。她们能看似同时与许多人在一起，以此说服其他人相信她们仿佛无处不在。她们能同时以数个人，并且同时在数个地方说话。她们能转移从善灵流入的东西，甚至从天使灵流入的东西，立刻以不同的方式将其改变为适合她们自己的东西。她们能通过抓住并模仿别人的思维模式来冒充别人。她们能通过潜入别人的实际情感来激发别人对自己的情感。她们能突然溜出视线，消失不见。她们能在灵人眼前展现出头部周围的明亮火焰，这是天使的标志，并且能当着许多人的面这样做。她们能以种种方式假装无辜，甚至表现为她们所亲吻的婴儿。她们还能煽动她们所恨的人杀害她们（因为她们知道自己死不了），然后公开指控他们是杀人犯。
她们曾经从我的记忆中唤起我所思想或做过的恶事，并且以最娴熟、最专业的方式如此行。她们趁我睡着的时候向别人说话，好像这些话是我说的；结果，灵人们信以为真，因而信了虚假和恶心的话。除此之外，她们还有其它许多伎俩。这些女人的性质如此具有说服力，以至于让人毫无怀疑的余地。这就是为何她们的观念不像其他灵人的那样被交流。可以说，她们的眼睛就像蛇眼，能同时看见并注意到各个方向的事物。这些女巫或塞壬会受到严厉惩罚：有的在火坑或欣嫩子谷中；有的在一种会堂里被蛇包围；有的被撕裂，遭受各种殴打，伴随着极大的痛苦和折磨。一段时间后，她们与所有社群分离，从头到脚变得像骷髅。本章末尾将继续阐述这一主题（938-946节）。
注：塞壬，古希腊神话中半人半鸟或半人半鱼的女海妖，以美妙歌声诱使航海者驶向礁石或进入危险水域。
创世记8
1.神记念挪亚和同他在方舟里的一切野兽、一切牲畜。神使风吹过地上，水就消退。
2.深渊的泉源和天上的水闸都闭塞了，天上的雨也止住了。
3.水从地上来回渐退，过了一百五十天，水就退了。
4.七月，就是那月的十七日，方舟停在亚拉腊山上。
5.水又渐消，直到十月；到了十月，就是那月的初一，山顶都露出了。
6.过了四十天，挪亚开了他所造的方舟的窗户。
7.他放出一只乌鸦，乌鸦出去，飞来飞去，直到水从地上都干了。
8.他又从他那里放出一只鸽子，要看看水从土地面上减退没有。
9.鸽子找不着落脚掌之地，就回到方舟挪亚那里，因为全地面上都是水；挪亚伸手接了鸽子，把它带到自己这里，进入方舟。
10.他又等了七天，再把鸽子从方舟放出去。
11.到了晚上，鸽子回到他那里；看哪，嘴里叼着一片啄下来的橄榄叶。挪亚就知道水从地上减退了。
12.他又等了七天，放出鸽子，鸽子就再没有回到他那里。
13.到六百零一岁，正月初一，水从地上都干了；挪亚移开方舟的盖观看，看哪，土地面干了。
14.到了二月，就是那月的二十七日，地就都干了。
15.神和挪亚说话，说，
16.你和你的妻子，你的儿子、儿媳都要同你出方舟。
17.所有肉体中凡与你在一起的野兽，就是飞鸟、牲畜和一切爬在地上的爬行物，你都要带出来，叫它们遍及大地，在地上繁殖增多。
18.于是，挪亚出来了，他的儿子、妻子和儿媳都与他一起出来了。
19.一切野兽，一切爬行物，一切飞鸟，和爬在地上的一切，各从自己的族类，都出了方舟。
20.挪亚为耶和华筑了一座坛，拿各类洁净的牲畜和各类洁净的飞鸟献在坛上为燔祭。
21.耶和华闻了那安息之气，耶和华就心里说，我不再因人的缘故咒诅土地，因为人心的想象从小就邪恶。我也不再照我所作的击灭一切活物了。
22.尽地所有的日子，播种与收割、冷与热、夏与冬、昼与夜，就永不停息了。
New Century Edition
Cooper(2008,2013)
[NCE]831. There are women who lived a life of indulgence, focusing their energies on themselves and the world and centering their whole lives and all the pleasure of life on external decorum. As a result polite society valued them more than others. From practice and habit they learned to behave in socially acceptable ways in order to tap into others' desires and sensual pleasures. This they did under a pretense of respectability but with the desire to control. Consequently their lives became a sham and a lie. They attended church just as others did, but for no reason except to appear honorable and devout. Furthermore, they lacked any conscience and were very much drawn to immoral and adulterous conduct, so far as it could be kept hidden.
Their thinking remains the same in the next life. What a conscience is they do not know, and they scoff at people who use the word. They get inside others' feelings, whatever those may be, simulating honesty, piety, mercy, and innocence, and using these as covers for deception. Whenever outward restraints are removed from them, they plunge into the most criminal obscenities.
[2] In the other life, these women become sorceresses or witches, some of whom are called sirens.{*1} There they eagerly take up arts unknown in the world. They are like sponges that soak up wicked and cunning methods, for which they have such a talent that they put them directly into practice. The stratagems unknown in this world that they learn there are these:
They can throw their voices, so that it seems as though the sound were coming from good spirits somewhere else.
They can seem to be with several people at once, convincing others that they are present almost everywhere.
They can speak as though they were many people talking simultaneously and in many places at once.
They can deflect what flows in from good spirits and even from angelic ones and immediately twist it to their own advantage in a variety of ways.
They can impersonate another by seizing on the person's patterns of thought and mimicking them.
They can induce affection for themselves in anyone by worming their way into the actual emotions the person is feeling.
They can suddenly drop out of sight and turn invisible.
They can create the appearance of a dazzling white flame — the sign of an angel — around their head, and this in front of a large number of spirits.
They have different ways of pretending innocence, even causing babies to appear and kissing them.
And they inspire the people they hate to kill them (since they know they cannot die) and then publicly accuse them of being murderers.
[3] In my case, using consummate skill they dredged up out of my memory everything bad that I had ever thought or done. While I was sleeping, they talked to others exactly as if I were speaking, managing to dupe those spirits; and what they said was false and lewd. They have many other devices as well.
Their nature is so persuasive that not a trace of hesitation can be detected in it. For this reason their thoughts are not shared generally, as other spirits' thoughts are. Their eyes are like snakes' eyes, as people say, looking everywhere and projecting mental images in all directions.
These witches or sirens are punished severely, some in Gehenna, some surrounded by snakes in a kind of assembly hall. The punishment of some consists in being torn apart and buffeted in various ways, with the greatest pain and anguish. After a while they are ostracized and turn into seeming skeletons from head to toe.
More on this subject follows at the end of the chapter [938-946].
Potts(1905-1910) 831
831. There are women who have lived in the indulgence of their natural inclinations, caring only for themselves and the world, and making the whole of life and the delight of life to consist in outward decorum, in consequence of which they have been highly esteemed in polite society. They have thus, by practice and habit, acquired the talent of insinuating themselves into the desires and pleasures of others, under the pretense of what is honorable, but with the purpose of gaining control over them. Their life therefore became one of dissimulation and deceit. Like others they frequented churches, but for no other end than that they might appear virtuous and pious; and moreover they were without conscience, and very prone to shameful acts and adulteries, so far as these could be concealed. Such women think in the same way in the other life, knowing not what conscience is, and ridiculing those who speak of it. They enter into the affections of others, whatever these may be, by simulating virtue, piety, pity, and innocence, which are their means of deceiving; but whenever outward restraints are removed, they rush into things most wicked and obscene. [2] These are the women who become enchantresses or sorceresses in the other life, some of whom are those called Sirens; and they there become expert in arts unknown in the world. They are like sponges that imbibe nefarious artifices; and are of such talent that they quickly put them in practice. The arts unknown in this world which they learn in the other are these. They can speak as though they were in another place, so that their voice is heard there as from good spirits. They can as it were be with many at the same time, thus persuading others that they are as if present everywhere. They can speak as several persons at the same time, and in several places at the same time. They can turn aside what flows in from good spirits, even what flows in from angelic spirits, and in diverse ways pervert it instantly in favor of themselves. They can put on the likeness of another, by the ideas of him which they conceive and fashion. They can inspire anyone with an affection for themselves, by insinuating themselves into the very state of another's affection. They can withdraw suddenly out of sight, and escape unseen. They can represent before the eyes of spirits a white flame about the head, which is an angelic sign, and this before many. They can in diverse ways feign innocence, even by representing infants whom they kiss. They also excite others, whom they hate, to kill them (for they know they cannot die), and then divulge it and accuse them of murder. [3] They have called up out of my memory whatever of evil I have thought and done, and this most skillfully. While I was asleep they have talked with others, just as if from me, so that the spirits were persuaded of it, thus of things false and obscene. And many other arts they have. Their nature is so persuasive that no room is left therein for any doubt; therefore their ideas are not communicated like those of other spirits. And their eyes are like those ascribed to serpents, seeing and paying attention every way at once. These sorceresses or sirens are grievously punished, some in Gehenna, some in a kind of court among snakes; some by wrenchings and various collisions, attended with the greatest pain and torture. In course of time they are separated from all society and become like skeletons from head to foot. A continuation of the subject follows at the end of the chapter.
CHAPTER 8. 1. And God remembered Noah, and every wild animal, and every beast that was with him in the ark; and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters assuaged. 2. The fountains also of the deep, and the cataracts of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained. 3. And the waters receded from off the earth, going and returning; and after the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters failed. 4. And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat. 5. And the waters were going and failing until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains appeared. * * * * * * * * 6. And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made:
7. And he sent forth a raven, and it went forth, going and returning, until the waters were dried up from off the earth. 8. And he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the faces of the ground. 9. And the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him to the ark, for the waters were on the faces of the whole earth; and he put forth his hand and took her, and brought her in unto him into the ark. 10. And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark;
11. And the dove came back to him at eventide; and lo in her mouth an olive leaf plucked off; so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth. 12. And he stayed yet other seven days, and sent forth the dove, and she returned not again unto him anymore. 13. And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year, in the beginning, on the first of the month, that the waters were dried up from off the earth; and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and saw, and behold, the faces of the ground were dry. * * * * * * * * 14. In the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dry. 15. And God spake unto Noah, saying, 16. Go forth from the ark, thou and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee. 17. Every wild animal that is with thee of all flesh, as to fowl, and as to beast, and as to every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, bring forth with thee, that they may spread themselves in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth. 18. And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him. 19. Every wild animal, every creeping thing, and every fowl, everything that creepeth upon the earth, according to their families, went forth out of the ark. * * * * * * * * 20. And Noah builded an altar unto Jehovah; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. 21. And Jehovah smelled an odor of rest; and Jehovah said in His heart, I will not again curse the ground anymore on man's account; because the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite anymore everything living, as I have done. 22. During all the days of the earth, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night, shall not cease.
Elliott(1983-1999) 831
831. There are women who have lived to satisfy their own inclinations. They have studied solely themselves and the world, and have focused the whole of life and its enjoyment in being outwardly respectable. Consequently in social circles they have been esteemed above other women. By the way they have behaved and conducted themselves they have acquired the ability to worm their way, by being outwardly respectable, into other people's desires and pleasures. They have employed a pretence to being honourable, but their aim has been to gain control over others. As a result their lives have become those of sham and deceit. Like other people they have gone to Church, but with no other end in view than giving the appearance of being honourable and devout. Furthermore they have been devoid of conscience, strongly inclined to behaving disgracefully and committing adultery insofar as it was possible to do so without being found out. Such women go on thinking in the same way in the next life. They do not know what conscience is and they laugh at people who mention it. They encroach upon whatever affections other people may have through their pretence of honourableness, devoutness, mercy, and innocence, which with them are instruments for deception. And whenever external restraints are removed from them, they rush into the most abominable and disgusting practices.
[2] These are women who in the next life become sorceresses or witches. Some of them are those called sirens. In that life they acquire tricks unknown in the world. They are like sponges that soak up unmentionable tricks, and are so clever that they quickly put them into practice. The tricks which they learn in that world and are unknown in this include their ability to speak as though they are somewhere else, so that their voice is heard as if coming from good spirits in that other place. They have the ability to appear to be with many people simultaneously, and in this way convince others that they can appear to be present everywhere. They have the ability to speak as if they were various persons simultaneously, and in various places simultaneously. They have the ability to turn aside what is flowing in from good spirits, even what is flowing in from angelic spirits, and to change that instantly and in different ways into what suits themselves. They have the ability to impersonate somebody else by means of his ideas which they adopt and give shape to. They can inspire an affection for themselves into somebody else by worming their way into the very slate of the other person's affections. They can steal away suddenly out of sight, without being noticed. They can exhibit before the eyes of spirits a bright flame around their head, which is an angelic sign, doing so in the presence of many. They can feign innocence in various ways, even by exhibiting infants whom they are caressing. They can also incite others whom they hate to kill them - for they know that they cannot die - and afterwards publicly accuse them of being murderers.
[3] They have called forth from my memory whatever evil I have thought or committed, doing so in a most expert fashion. When I was asleep they have spoken to others just as if the words came from myself, with the result that spirits were convinced of it, and indeed things that were false and disgusting. And there are many other practices in addition to these. The nature of these women is so persuasive that they leave one with no feeling of doubt. This is why their ideas are not communicated as those of other spirits are. And their eyes are, so to speak, like those of a snake, having a vision of and noting things in every direction at once. These witches or sirens are punished severely. Some are in Gehenna; some in a kind of court among snakes; some are punished by being ripped apart, and by various beatings, accompanied by very great pain and torment. In the process of time they are separated from one another and come to look like skeletons from head to toe. A continuation of this subject follows at the end of the chapter.
Latin(1748-1756) 831
831. Sunt quae vixerunt genio, et solum studuerunt sibi et mundo, et in externo decoro posuerunt omnem vitam et vitae jucunditatem, quare in societate civili prae aliis aestimatae; inde ex actualitate et habitu traxerunt id quod per modos decori se insinuare potuerint aliorum cupiditatibus et voluptatibus, simulatione honesti, sed fine dominandi; inde vita eorum facta simulativa et dolosa: similiter ac alii frequentarunt Ecclesias, sed ob nullum alium finem quam ut honestae et piae apparerent; et praeterea fuerunt absque conscientia, ad flagitia et adulteria pronissimae, quantum occultari potuissent. Tales in altera vita similiter cogitant; quid conscientia non sciunt, irrident eos qui nominant conscientiam; in aliorum quascumque affectiones intrant, simulando honestum, pium, misericors, innocens, quae iis sunt media decipiendi; et quoties vincula externa iis auferuntur, ruunt in scelestissima et obscenissima. Hae sunt quae in altera vita fiunt magae seu praestigiatrices, quarum quaedam sunt quae vocantur sirenes; et arripiunt ibi artes in mundo ignotas; sunt sicut spongiae quae imbibunt artificia nefanda, et tali genio ut prompte exerceant: artificia in mundo ignota quae ibi addiscunt, sunt quod loqui possint sicut alibi, ut vox audiatur sicut a spiritibus bonis alio loco: quod possint simul quasi apud plures esse, persuadendo sic aliis se esse quasi praesentes ubivis: quod loquantur ut plures simul, et in pluribus locis simul: quod avertere possint quae influunt a spiritibus bonis, etiam quae a spiritibus angelicis, et pervertere ilico in sui favorem diversimode: quod inducere similitudinem alius per ideas quas captant et effigiant: cuivis inspirare affectionem pro se, insinuando se ipsi statui affectionis alterius; se surripere subito e conspectu et evadere inconspicuae; repraesentare coram spiritibus candidam flammam circum caput et hoc coram pluribus, quod signum est angelicum; innocentiam simulare diversis modis, etiam repraesentando infantes quos osculantur: inspirant quoque aliis, contra quos odium habent, ut se necent, quia sciunt se mori non posse, postea accusant eos pro homicidis et divulgant: excitaverunt e memoria quicquid mali cogitavi et patravi, et hoc solertissime; cum in somno essem, locutae sunt prorsus sicut a me cum aliis, sic ut persuaderentur spiritus, et quidem falsa et obscena; praeter alia plura: natura earum tam persuasiva est ut ei nihil dubitativi inesse percipiatur; inde non communicantur ideae earum sicut aliorum spirituum; suntque iis oculi quasi serpentini, ut dicitur, undequaque visum et ideam praesentem habentes. Hae praestigiatrices seu sirenes puniuntur graviter; quaedam in Gehenna; quaedam in curia quadam inter angues; quaedam per distractiones et varias collisiones, cum maximo dolore et cruciatu; successu temporis dissociantur, et fiunt sicut sceleta a capite ad calcem. Continuatio sequitur in fine capitis.CAPUT VIII 1. ET recordatus est DEUS Noahi, et omnis ferae, et omnis bestiae, quae cum illo in arca; et transire fecit Deus ventum super terram, et desederunt aquae. 2. Et obturati sunt fontes abyssi, et cataractae caeli, et inhibitus est imber e caelo. 3. Et recesserunt aquae de super terra, eundo et redeundo, et defecerunt aquae a fine quinquaginta et centum dierum. 4. Et quievit arca in mense septimo, in septimo decimo die mensis, super montibus Ararat. 5. Et aquae erant eundo et deficiendo usque ad mensem decimum; in decimo, in primo mensis, apparuerunt capita montium. * * * 6. Et factum a fine quadraginta dierum, et aperuit Noah fenestram arcae, quam fecit. 7. Et emisit corvum, et exivit exeundo et redeundo, usque ad exsiccationem aquarum de super terra. 8. Et emisit columbam a secum ad videndum, num diminutae sint aquae de super faciebus humi. 9. Et non invenit columba quietem volae pedis sui, et reversa est ad illum ad arcam, quia aquae super faciebus totius terrae; et emisit manum suam, et accepit illam, et induxit illam ad se in arcam. 10. Et exspectavit adhuc septem dies alios, et perrexit emittere columbam de arca. 11. Et reversa est ad illum columba ad tempus vesperae; et ecce folium olivae decerptum in ore illius; et cognovit Noah quod diminutae aquae de super terra. 12. Et exspectavit adhuc septem dies alios, et emisit columbam, et non addidit redire ad illum amplius. 13. Et factum in primo et sexcentesimo anno, in principio in primo mensis, aruerunt aquae de super terra, et removit Noah tectum arcae, et vidit, et ecce arefactae sunt facies humi. 14. Et in mense secundo, in septimo et vigesimo die mensis, exsiccata est terra. * * * 15. Et locutus est DEUS ad Noahum, dicendo, 16. Exi de arca tu et uxor tua, et filii tui, et uxores filiorum tuorum tecum. 17. Omnis fera quae tecum de omni carne, quoad avem, et quoad bestiam, et quoad omne reptile repens super terra, educ tecum; et diffundant se in terram, et fructificent se, et multiplicentur super terra. 18. Et exivit Noah, et filii ejus, et uxor ejus, et uxores filiorum ejus cum illo. 19. Omnis fera, omne reptile, et omnis avis, omne repens super terra; secundum familias suas exiverunt de arca. * * * 20. Et aedificavit Noah altare JEHOVAE, et accepit de omne bestia munda, et de omni ave munda, et obtulit holocausta super altari. 21. Et odoratus JEHOVAH odorem quietis, et dixit JEHOVAH in corde Suo, Non addam maledicere amplius humo, propter hominem, quia figmentum cordis hominis malum a pueritia ejus; et non addam amplius percutere omne vivum sicut feci. 22. Adhuc omnibus diebus terrae, sementis et messis, et frigus et aestus, et aestas et hiems, et dies et nox, non cessabunt.