85、属天人是“第七日”，第七日被分别为圣，称为安息日，这些都是至今尚未揭开的奥秘。因为没有人知道属天人的性质，很少有人知道属灵人的性质。由于这种无知，他们便将属灵人等同于属天人；而事实上，他们之间存在巨大的差别（可参看81节）。至于第七日，至于属天人是“第七日”或“安息日”，这从以下事实明显看出来：主自己就是安息日，所以祂说：
人子也是安息日的主。（马可福音2:28）
这句话暗示，主就是人本身，是安息日本身。祂给祂在天上和地上的国赐名为安息日，或永恒的平安和安息。此处所论述的上古教会比后来的任何教会都更是主的安息日。
后来的每个至内在的教会都是主的一个安息日；每个重生之人当变得属天时，也是一个安息日，因为他是主的一个样式。在此之前是争战或劳苦的六天。在犹太教会，这些事由六日作工和第七日，就是安息日来表示；因为在犹太教会所设立的东西无不代表主及其国度。约柜的起行与停歇也具有类似代表，因为约柜在旷野的行进代表争战和试探，它的停歇代表平安的状态。这就是为何当它起行时，摩西就说，耶和华啊，求你兴起！愿恨你的人从你面前逃跑；当它停歇时，他就说，耶和华啊，求你回到以色列的千万人中（民数记10:35–36）。当约柜离开耶和华的山时，圣言的这一部分说它要“为他们寻找安歇的地方”（民数记10:33）。
在以赛亚书，属天人的安歇被描述为安息日：
你若从安息日掉转你的脚步，在我圣日不作你喜欢作的，称属安息日的为可喜乐的，归耶和华为圣。尊敬这日，不行自己的路，不寻求自己所喜悦的，不说自己的话，你就以耶和华为乐，我要使你乘驾地的高处，又以雅各的产业喂养你。（以赛亚书58:13-14）
这就是属天人的品性，即：他不是照自己的渴望，而是照主的美意，也就是主的渴望行动。因此，他享有内在的平安和幸福（在此由“乘驾地的高处”来表述），同时享有外在的宁静和快乐（由“以雅各的产业喂养”来表示）。
New Century Edition
Cooper(2008,2013)
[NCE]85. Lack of information is another reason why these secrets — that a person of heavenly character is the seventh day, that this explains the consecration of the seventh day, and that it was named "Sabbath" for the idea of rest — have continued to lie hidden. No one knows what a heavenly person is, and few what a spiritual person is. Inevitably, in their ignorance, people have considered a spiritual person the same as a heavenly one, when a rather large difference separates the two (see 81).
In regard to the seventh day, evidence that a heavenly person is the seventh day or Sabbath can be found in the identity of the Lord himself as the Sabbath. As he says, "The Son of Humankind is lord even of the Sabbath" (Mark 2:28), meaning that the Lord is the true human being and the Sabbath itself.
He calls his kingdom in the heavens and on earth the Sabbath, or eternal peace and rest.{*1} [2] The earliest church (the subject here) more than all later ones was the Lord's Sabbath.
In every subsequent church, the inmost part, closest to the Lord, has also been the Sabbath.
The same holds true for all regenerate people when they develop a heavenly nature, as they are then likenesses of the Lord. They are past the six days of conflict, or labor.
In the Jewish church, all these considerations were represented by the work days and by the seventh day, the Sabbath. That church had no customs that did not represent something about the Lord and his kingdom.
The ark represented the same kind of thing in its travels and its repose. Its travels in the wilderness represented conflict and trial; its repose, a time of peace. So when it set out on a journey, Moses said, "Rise, Jehovah, and let your enemies scatter, and let those who hate you run from your face;" and when it came to rest, he said, "Come back, Jehovah, to the countless thousands of Israel." This is from Numbers 10:35-36. Verse 33. of the same chapter portrays the ark as setting out from the mountain of Jehovah "to find rest for them."
[3] Isaiah uses the Sabbath to paint a picture of the heavenly person's quiet rest:
If you turn your foot back from the Sabbath by not doing your own desire on my holy day; if you refer to those things that belong to the Sabbath as pleasures honoring the holiness of Jehovah, and you honor [the Sabbath] by not going your own ways and not gaining your own desire or speaking a word [of your own]; then you will be a pleasure to Jehovah, and I will make you ride on the heights of the earth and will feed you with the inheritance of Jacob. (Isaiah 58:13-14)
Heavenly people act not on their own desire but on the Lord's pleasure, which is his desire. So they are blessed with inner peace and happiness (their being "lifted up on the heights of the earth") and at the same time with outer calm and enjoyment (their being "fed with Jacob's inheritance").
Footnotes:
{*1} For more on the association of the Lord's kingdom with the Sabbath, see 8495 and the passages quoted there, including Isaiah 56:7; Jeremiah 17:24-25; Ezekiel 20:12. For its association with peace, see 3780 and the passages quoted there, including Isaiah 9:6-7; 32:17-18; 52:7; 54:10; Jeremiah 16:5; Haggai 2:9; John 14:27. [LHC, JSR]
Potts(1905-1910) 85
85. That the celestial man is the "seventh day" and that the seventh day was therefore hallowed, and called the Sabbath, are arcana which have not hitherto been discovered. For none have been acquainted with the nature of the celestial man, and few with that of the spiritual man, whom in consequence of this ignorance they have made to be the same as the celestial man, notwithstanding the great difference that exists between them, as may be seen in n. 81. As regards the seventh day, and as regards the celestial man being the "seventh day" or "Sabbath" this is evident from the fact that the Lord Himself is the Sabbath; and therefore He says:
The Son of man is Lord also of the Sabbath (Mark 2:27), which words imply that the Lord is Man himself, and the Sabbath itself. His kingdom in the heavens and on the earth is called, from Him, a Sabbath, or eternal peace and rest. [2] The Most Ancient Church, which is here treated of, was the Sabbath of the Lord above all that succeeded it. Every subsequent inmost church of the Lord is also a Sabbath; and so is every regenerate person when he becomes celestial, because he is a likeness of the Lord. The six days of combat or labor precede. These things were represented in the Jewish church by the days of labor, and by the seventh day, which was the Sabbath; for in that church there was nothing instituted which was not representative of the Lord and of His kingdom. The like was also represented by the ark when it went forward, and when it rested, for by its journeyings in the wilderness were represented combats and temptations, and by its rest a state of peace; and therefore, when it set forward, Moses said:
Rise up, Jehovah, and let Thine enemies be scattered, and let them that hate Thee flee before Thy faces. And when it rested, he said, Return, Jehovah, unto the ten thousands of the thousands of Israel (Num. 10:35-36). It is there said of the ark that it went from the Mount of Jehovah "to search out a rest for them" (Num. 10:33). [3] The rest of the celestial man is described by the Sabbath in Isaiah:
If thou bring back thy foot from the Sabbath, so that thou doest not thy desire in the day of My holiness, and callest the things of the Sabbath delights to the holy of Jehovah, honorable; and shalt honor it, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own desire, nor speaking a word; then shalt thou be delightful to Jehovah, and I will cause thee to be borne over the lofty things of the earth, and will feed thee with the heritage of Jacob (Isa. 58:13-14). Such is the quality of the celestial man that he acts not according to his own desire, but according to the good pleasure of the Lord, which is his "desire." Thus he enjoys internal peace and happiness-here expressed by "being uplifted over the lofty things of the earth"-and at the same time external tranquility and delight, which is signified by "being fed with the heritage of Jacob."
Elliott(1983-1999) 85
85. That the celestial man is the seventh day, and that the seventh day was for that reason made holy and called the Sabbath from a word for 'rest', are as yet undisclosed arcana. This is because people have not known what the celestial man is, and few what the spiritual man is. In their ignorance they could not avoid making the latter the same as the celestial, when in fact there is a vast difference between them; see 81. As regards the seventh day and the celestial man's being the seventh day or Sabbath, this is clear from the fact that the Lord Himself is the Sabbath, for which reason He also says,
The Son of Man is Lord also of the Sabbath. Mark 2:28.
These words embody the concept that the Lord is Man himself, and the Sabbath itself. He gives the name Sabbath, or eternal peace and rest, to His kingdom in heaven and on earth. The Most Ancient Church, which is the subject here, was the Lord's Sabbath more than any subsequent Church.
[2] Every subsequent inmost Church has been a Sabbath of the Lord, and so is every regenerate person when he becomes celestial, since he is a likeness of the Lord. Six days of conflict or labour precede this. In the Jewish Church these things were represented by the work days, and by the seventh which was the Sabbath; for in that Church, everything that had been ordained was representative of the Lord and His kingdom. The Ark too had a similar representation when it was travelling and when it came to rest. Its travels through the wilderness represented conflicts and temptations, and its resting represented states of peace. This is why when it travelled Moses said,
Arise, O Jehovah, and let Your enemies be scattered, and let those who hate You flee from Your face.a And when it came to rest he said, Return, O Jehovah, to the myriads of the thousands of Israel. Num 10:35, 36.
The same portion of Scripture speaks of the Ark 'travelling from the mountain of Jehovah to search out rest for them'. ibid. Verse 33. The Sabbath is used to describe the celestial man's rest in Isaiah,
If you turn back your foot from the Sabbath, so that you do not your desire on My holy day, and you call the things which belong to the Sabbath delights honourable to the Holiness of Jehovah, and you honour it so that you do not your own ways, nor find your own desire and speak your own words, then you will be delightful to Jehovah, and I will have you carried over the high places of the earth, and I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob. Isa 58:13, 14.
The celestial man is such that he does not base his actions on his own desires but on what pleases the Lord; this is his desire. In this way he enjoys inward peace and happiness, here expressed by 'being carried up over the high places of the earth'. At the same time he enjoys outward contentment and joy, meant by 'being fed with the heritage of Jacob'.
Latin(1748-1756) 85
85. Quod homo caelestis sit 'septimus dies,' et septimus dies inde sanctificatus, et dictus sabbatum a quiete, sunt arcana nondum detecta, etiam ex causa quia nesciverunt quid caelestis homo, pauci quid spiritualis, quem ii ex ignorantia non potuerant non eundem facere cum caelesti, cum tamen multa intercedit differentia, videatur n. 81. Quod septimum diem attinet, et quod caelestis homo sit 'septimus dies' seu sabbatum, constat ex eo quod Dominus Ipse sit Sabbatum, quare etiam dicit, {1} Dominus est Filius Hominis et sabbati, Marc. ii x28, quae involvunt quod Dominus sit ipse Homo, et ipsum Sabbatum. Regnum Ipsius in caelis et in terris ab Ipso vocatur sabbatum, seu aeterna pax et quies. Ecclesia Antiquissima de qua hic, prae sequentibus erat Domini sabbatum. [2] Omnis Ecclesia sequens intima Domini etiam est sabbatum: ita omnis regeneratus dum fit caelestis, quia est similitudo Domini; praecedunt sex dies pugnae seu laboris. Haec repraesentata sunt in Ecclesia Judaica per dies laboris, et per septimum qui sabbatum; nam in Ecclesia illa nihil non quod institutum, erat repraesentativum Domini et regni Ipsius: simile etiam repraesentatum est per 'arcam, cum proficisceretur et cum quiesceret'; per 'profectiones ejus in deserto' pugnae et tentationes, per 'quietem' status pacis, quare cum proficisceretur, dixit Moses, Surge Jehovah, et dispergantur inimici Tui, et fugiant osores Tui a faciebus Tuis; et cum quiesceret, dixit, Revertere Jehovah myriades {2} millium Israelis, Num. x 35, 36;de arca ibi dicitur quod 'profecta a monte Jehovae, ad investigandum illis requiem,' ibid. vers. 33. [3] Requies caelestis hominis per sabbatum describitur apud Esaiam, Si reducas a sabbato pedem tuum, ut non facias desiderium tuum, in die sanctitatis Meae, et voces illa, quae sunt sabbato delicias Sancto Jehovae, honorabiles, et honores illud, ut non facias vias tuas, nec invenias desiderium tuum, et loquaris verbum; tunc deliciosus eris Jehovae, et vehi faciam te super excelsa terra et cibabo te hereditate Jacobi, lviii 13, 14. Caelestis homo talis est ut non ex desiderio suo faciat, sed e beneplacito Domini, quod ejus desiderium est; sic fruitur pace felicitate interna, quae hic exprimitur per 'elevari super excelsa terrae et simul tranquillitate et jucunditate externa, quae significatur per' 'cibari hereditate Jacobi.' @ 1 The order here is that of the Gk. Kyrios estin ho uios where uios is evidently the subject. In T.C.R. 301 S. has Dominus dixit, quod etiam sit Dominus Sabbati. 1 has comma after Hominis, probably a printer's insertion.$ @ 2 This is a literal rendering of the Heb. See A.E. 700 for exposition.$