3482# 圣言的语言虽在人看来简单朴实，有时甚至显得粗糙，但实际上就是天使语言的最外在形式。天使的属灵语言落入人类言语时，只能以这种方式表达，因为其中每个事物都带有象征意义，每个词语都具有特定含义（约翰福音6:63）。古人因与灵界和天使有交通，所使用的语言也是如此：充满象征意义，每个词中都蕴含属灵意义。古人的著作也是这样写成的，因为用这种方式说话和写作是他们追求智慧的表现。
从这一点也可以看出人类后来与天堂的疏离程度。现今的人甚至不知道圣言除了字面意义外还有更深层的含义，也不知道其中蕴含属灵意义。任何超出字面意义的解释都被视为神秘，因而遭到排斥。这也导致了今天与天堂的交通被阻断，以至于很少有人相信天堂的存在。更令人惊讶的是，在学者和知识分子中，相信的人比普通百姓还要少。
3482.尽管圣言所使用的语言在人类看来似乎很简单，在某些经文中甚至比较粗糙，但它的确是天使的语言本身，不过是最低级形式的那类。因为当属灵的天使语言落入人类的词句时，它只能落入此类语言中。其中每一个事物都是代表，每一句话都具有一个含义。由于古人与灵人并天使直接交流，所以他们没有其它语言。他们的语言充满代表，每句话都具有属灵之义。而且，古人的书籍就是以这种方式写成的，因为以这种方式交谈和写作就是其智慧的目标。由此也明显可知，后来的人距离天堂何等遥远。如今，人们甚至不知道除了显现在字面上的事物外，圣言还有什么，就连其中属灵之义都不知道。凡超出字义的话都被冠以秘密，并仅仅以这个理由而被拒绝。这也解释了为何与天堂的交流如今被中断了，以致几乎没有人相信天堂的存在。说来奇怪，比起简单人，相信它的博学之士要少得多。
Potts(1905-1910) 3482
3482. Although the language used in the Word to man appears simple, and in some passages unpolished, it is the angelic language itself, but in its lowest form; for when the angelic speech, which is spiritual, falls into human words, it cannot fall into any other speech than such as this; every single thing therein being representative, and every single word being significative. As the ancients had interaction with spirits and angels, they had no other speech than this, which was full of representatives, and in every expression of which there was a spiritual sense. The books of the ancients were also written in this way; for it was the study of their wisdom so to speak and so to write. From this also it is evident how far man afterwards removed himself from heaven. At this day he does not even know that there is in the Word anything else than that which appears in the letter; not even that there is a spiritual sense within; and whatever is said beyond the literal sense is called mystical, and is rejected merely on this account. Hence also it is that communication with heaven is at this day intercepted, insomuch that few believe there is any heaven, and wonderful to say, among the learned and erudite much fewer than among the simple.
Elliott(1983-1999) 3482
3482. Although the language used in the Word appears to mankind to be simple, and in some places crude, it is angelic language itself, though in its lowest form. For when angelic language, which is spiritual, falls into human expressions it cannot fall into any other type of language than this. Individual things are representative, and individual expressions carry a meaning. Since they were in direct communication with spirits and angels the ancients possessed no other kind of language. Their language was full of representatives, and a spiritual sense was present in each expression. Also, the books of the ancients were written in the same fashion, for talking and writing in that fashion was the aim of their wisdom. How far mankind has since then retreated from heaven becomes clear from this as well. At present it does not even know that the Word includes anything apart from that which is seen in the letter, not even that there is a spiritual sense in it. Whatever is said to lie beyond the literal sense is termed mystical, which solely on these grounds is rejected. This also explains why at the present day communication with heaven has been interrupted, so much so that few believe in the existence of any heaven at all. Indeed, amazing to say, far fewer of the learned and scholarly than of the simple believe in it.
Latin(1748-1756) 3482
3482. Loquela quae in Verbo, tametsi coram homine simplex, et aliquibus in locis rudis, apparet, est {1}ipsa loquela angelica, sed ultima; loquela enim angelica, quae spiritualis est, dum cadit in voces humanas, non in aliam loquelam cadere potest quam in talem, singulae enim res ibi repraesentant, et singulae voces significant; antiquis quia commercium habebant cum spiritibus et angelis, non alia loquela fuit; erat plena repraesentativis {2}, et inerat sensus spiritualis singulis; libri antiquorum etiam ita conscripti sunt, nam ita loqui et ita scribere erat {3}sapientiae eorum studium; quantum postea homo se removerit a caelo, etiam inde constare potest; nunc ne quidem novit quod in Verbo sit aliud quam quod apparet in littera, ne quidem quod sensus spiritualis inibi sit; quicquid ultra sensum litteralem dicitur, vocatur mysticum, quod solum ideo rejicitur; inde quoque est quod intercepta sit communicatio hodie cum caelo, in tantum ut a paucis credatur quod aliquod caelum sit, et quod mirum, a doctis et eruditis multo pauciores quam a simplicibus {4}. @1 i ut apud prophetas$ @2 i et significativis$ @3 sapere$ @4 i probis$