147# 教会至今几乎无人知晓：人一切的意愿、思想，以及由此而生的行为与言语，皆分内在与外在两层；人自幼年便被教导依从外在发言，纵使内心全然不认同亦是如此。伪装、逢迎与伪善皆由此而生，人因此成为表里相悖的双重之人。唯有里外合一，外在的言语、思虑、意愿、行事全然发自内在本心的人，才是纯粹单纯之人。圣言中所称的 “单纯人” 便是指这类人（路 8:15，11:34，及其他多处经文），他们反倒比表里不一的双重之人更具真智慧。
一切受造之物皆兼具二重构造与三重层次，人体构造便可印证：每一根神经由纤维组成，纤维又由细微丝缕构成；每一块肌肉由纤维束聚合而成，纤维束内又含运动肌丝；每一条动脉皆由三层薄膜叠构而成。人的心智及其属灵机体亦是同理；正如前文所述，人心智可划分为三重层级：至高且至深的内层名为属天层级，中间一层名为属灵层级，最底层则为属世层级。
凡否认圣言神圣、否认主之神性的人，其心智活动始终局限在最低的属世层级。这类人自幼虽学习、接纳教会的属灵道理，却将这些真理置于属世事物之下；所谓属世事物，包含各类学识、政治规制、民事规范与世俗伦理。这些属世认知居于心智最底层，与言语表达最为贴近，故此他们在圣殿、集会之中，皆凭着这套表层认知宣讲。令人诧异的是，他们此时竟浑然不觉，自己的言说教导并非发自自身真实的信仰；可当他们身处家中、得以全然自在之时，心智内里紧闭的门便会敞开，时常暗自讥笑自己当众宣讲的道理，心中暗想：神学不过是外观华美的罗网，只为捕捉鸽子一般的信众。
147# 迄今为止，教会几乎不知道，在人的一切意愿和思维，以及由此产生的一切行为和言语里面都有一个内在和一个外在；从婴儿时期开始，人就被精心教导要出于外在说话，无论内在有多么不同意；这就是掩饰、奉承和虚伪的起源；人就这样变得口是心非，或说具有双重心智。只有那些外在出于内在思考、说话、意愿和行动的人才拥有单一的心智；圣言中的“简单人”（如路加福音8:15; 11:34; 以及别处），就是指这些人。然而，他们比那些具有双重心智的人更聪明。从人体的各个部位可以明显看出，每个受造物都具有双重性和三重性。其中每根神经都由纤维构成，每根纤维都由原纤维构成；每块肌肉都由纤维束构成，而这些纤维束又由运动纤维构成；每根动脉都由三重系列的鞘构成。人类心智也是如此，其属灵组织具有相似的性质；也就是说，如前所述（TCR 34，42，69节），人类心智分为三个不同的区域；其最高区域，也就是至内层，被称为属天层，中间区域被称为属灵层，最低区域被称为属世层。所有否认圣言的神圣性和主神性的人，其心智都在最低区域进行思考。但由于这些人从婴儿时期开始，也学习了教会的属灵事物，并接受它们，但却把它们置于属世事物（也就是各种科学、政治、文明和道德的知识）之下，还由于这些属灵事物占据最接近言语的心智最低层，所以他们在教会中和公开的聚会上就出于这些来说话；令人惊奇的是，那时他们完全没有意识到，他们不是出于自己真诚的信仰在说话和教导。但当他们处于自由时，就像他们在私下里或自己家里一样，关闭其心智内在的那扇门就打开了，然后他们有时会嘲笑他们之前公开宣扬的东西，心里说，神学就是捕鸽的诱人陷阱。
147. The church is still hardly aware that in all our desire, thought, action, and speech, there is an inside and an outside. From early childhood we are taught to speak from the outside, no matter how the inside disagrees, which leads to pretense, flattery, and hypocrisy. People are double. The only simple people are those whose outer selves think and speak, and desire and act, from their inner selves. These people are in fact referred to as "simple" in the Word; for example, Luke 8:15, 11:34, and elsewhere, even though they are wiser than double people.
Every created thing has two-fold and three-fold design, as the human body shows. Every nerve in the body is made of fibers, and every fiber is made of fibrils. Every muscle consists of bundles of fibers, and each bundle consists of individual motor fibers. Every artery consists of three layers of sheaths. It is the same in the human mind - its spiritual organic structure is the same. As I said before [34, 42, 69], the structure of the human mind is divided into three different levels. The highest or inmost of these is called the heavenly level, the middle is called the spiritual level, and the lowest is called the earthly level.
There are people who deny that the Word is holy and that the Lord is divine; in every case their minds think at the lowest level. Nevertheless, because these people have learned the church's spiritual teachings from early childhood, they accept them, but they put them down below earthly preoccupations, which are various things having to do with academics, politics, and the civic and moral arena. Because these preoccupations sit at the lowest level of their mind, the level that is closest to speech, these people draw on the church's spiritual teachings when they speak in church and at public gatherings. Astoundingly, at the time they do not even realize that they are speaking and teaching something they do not believe. Nevertheless, when they are at home and feeling free, the door that had closed off their inner mind opens up and then they laugh at their own talk to the crowd. They say in their hearts that theological teachings are attractive traps for catching doves.
147. The church up to now has been almost totally ignorant of the fact that a person's every wish and thought, and consequently every action and utterance, has an internal and an external side, and people are taught from childhood to speak in accordance with the external side, no matter how much the internal disagrees. This is the origin of pretence, insincerity and hypocrisy. It follows that people are duplicitous, and the only man who is simple is the one whose external thinks and speaks, and wills and acts, in accordance with the internal. It is these people who are meant in the Word by the simple (e.g, Luke 8:15, 11:34, etc.), although they are wiser than the duplicitous. Every created thing is double or triple, as can be proved from the human body. Every nerve is composed of fibres, every fibre of fibrils; every muscle of bundles of fibres, and these bundles are composed of motor fibres; every artery is composed of a triple series of tunics. It is the same in the human mind, which is spiritually organised in the same way, because, as stated before, the human mind is divided into three levels. The highest, which is also the inmost, is called celestial, the middle spiritual, and the lowest natural. The minds of all who deny the holiness of the Word and the Lord's divinity think on the lowest level. But because they have also learned from childhood the church's teaching on spiritual matters, and they accept these though they subordinate them to natural matters - that is, various facts, political and civil behaviour - and since these lie at the bottom of the mind, ready to hand when speaking, they can draw on these when speaking in churches and meetings. The extraordinary thing is that they are then quite unaware that they are speaking and teaching otherwise than in accordance with their belief. Yet the truth is that when they are left to themselves, as they are at home, the door which blocked off the internal of their mind is thrown open, and then they sometimes laugh at what they said when speaking in public, saying in their hearts that theology is a collection of specious traps for catching doves.
147. It is as yet scarcely known in the church that in all of man's will and thought and his consequent action and speech, there is an internal and an external, and that from infancy man is carefully taught to speak from the external, however the internal may dissent; and that this is the origin of simulation, flattery, and hypocrisy; and thus man becomes double-minded. But he alone is single-minded whose external thinks and speaks and wills and acts from the internal; and such are meant by the "simple [single]" in the Word (as in Luke 8:15; 11:34; and elsewhere). Nevertheless these are wiser than those who are double-minded. The doubleness and tripleness in every created thing is evident in the parts of the human body. Every nerve therein consists of fibers, and every fiber of fibrils; every muscle consists of bundles of fibers, and these of motor fibers; every artery of coats in a triple series. It is the same in the human mind, whose spiritual organization is of like character, because, as said already, it is divided into three distinct regions; of which the highest, which is also the inmost, is called the celestial, the middle is called the spiritual, and the lowest the natural. It is in this lower region that the minds of all men who deny the holiness of the Word and the Divinity of the Lord carry on thought. But because such have learned also from infancy the spiritual things pertaining to the church, and accept these, but place them beneath natural things (that is, scientific, political, and civil-moral matters of various kinds), also because these spiritual things occupy the lowest part of the mind, which is nearest to speech, it comes to pass that when such persons speak in churches and public assemblies they speak from these; and what is wonderful, they are quite unaware at the time that they are not speaking and teaching from a belief in them. But when they are in freedom, as they are in privacy, the door that has closed the internal of their mind is opened, and then at times they laugh at what they had before preached publicly, saying in their hearts that theology is a specious snare for catching doves.
147. The Church, as yet, hardly knows that in all human will and thought, and resulting action and speech, there is an internal and an external; and that a man from infancy is taught to speak from the external, however much the internal may dissent: whence arise dissimulation, flattery and hypocrisy. Consequently man is a dual being, and those alone have singleness of mind whose external thinks and speaks, wills and acts from the internal. Such are meant by the simple in the Word, as in Luke 8:15; 11:34; and in other places, although they are wiser than those of a double character. That every created thing is of a double and triple character is evident from the parts of the human body, in which every nerve consists of fibres, and every fibre of fibrils; every muscle is composed of bundles of fibres, and these again of motor fibres; and every artery is formed of coats in a triple series.
It is the same in the human mind, whose spiritual organization is of a similar nature; that is, as was stated above, the human mind is divided into three regions, the highest, which is also the inmost, being called the celestial, the middle the spiritual, and the lowest the natural. The minds of all those who deny the sanctity of the Word and the Divinity of the Lord, think in the lowest region. However, because they from infancy have also been instructed in the spiritual things of the Church, and still retain them, although regarding them as inferior to natural things, which are the various kinds of scientific, political, civil and moral knowledge; and because these spiritual things remain on the lowest plane of their minds and nearest to speech, they speak from them in churches and in assemblies; and, what is wonderful, they do not know but that they speak and teach from their own sincere belief. Nevertheless when they are free, as they are in their own home, the door which closed the internal of their minds is opened, and then sometimes they laugh at those things which they preached in public, saying in heart that theology is but a specious snare for catching doves.
147. Ecclesia adhuc fere nescit, quod in omni voluntate et cogitatione et inde actione et loquela hominis sit Internum et Externum, et quod homo ab infantia edoctus sit loqui ab Externo utcunque dissentit Internum, inde simulationes, assentationes et hypocrises; consequenter quod sit duplex, et ille modo simplex, cujus Externum cogitat et loquitur, atque vult et agit ab Interno, hi quoque per simplices intelliguntur in Verbo, ut Luca 8:15; 11:34, et alibi, tametsi plus sapientes sunt, quam duplices. Quod duplicitas et triplicitas sit in omni creato, constat ab his in corpore humano; omnis Nervus ibi consistit a fibris, et fibra a fibrillis; omnis Musculus ex fasciculis fibrarum, et hi ex fibris motricibus; omnis Arteria ex tunicis in triplici serie; simile est in Mente humana, cujus organismus spiritualis est talis; hoc est quod, ut supra dictum est, Mens humana in tres regiones distincta sit, quarum suprema, quae etiam est intima, vocatur coelestis, media spiritualis, 1 et infima naturalis. Mentes omnium hominum, qui negant sanctitatem Verbi et Divinitatem Domini, cogitant in regione infima, sed quia ab infantia didicerunt etiam spiritualia quae Ecclesiae sunt, et haec recipiunt, at illa ponunt infra naturalia, quae sunt varia scientifica, politica et civilia moralia, et quia infime et proxime loquelae in mente sedent, ex illis loquuntur in templis et in caetibus, et, quod mirum est, non aliter sciunt tunc, quam quod loquantur et doceant ex fide illorum, cum tamen, quando in suo libero sunt, quod fit domi, aperitur janua, quae occlusit internum mentis eorum, et tunc quandoque rident ad illa, quae coram caetu sermocinati sunt, dicentes corde, quod Theologica sint speciosi laquei ad captandum columbas.
Footnotes:
1. Prima editio: fpiritualis.