231# 三、作为教义之内容的纯正真理，在圣言字义中，唯有受主光照者方能显现。光照唯独来自主，并且只临于那些爱真理因其为真理、并使这些真理成为生活之用者；在其余人那里，并无圣言中的光照。光照唯独来自主，是因为圣言出于祂，故祂在圣言之中；光照临于那些爱真理因其为真理、并使这些真理成为生活之用者，是因为他们在主里面，主也在他们里面。盖主即真理本身，如论主一章中所示；而当人照祂的神性真理生活，即由这些真理成就诸用时，主便为人所爱；这正合乎约翰福音所言：“到那日，你们就知道……你们在我里面，我也在你们里面；有了我的命令又遵守的，这人……就是爱我的；……我也要爱他，并且要向他显现；并且我要到他那里去，与他同住”（约 14:20，21，23）。
这些人，就是读圣言时处于光照中的人；圣言在他们那里发光而透明显耀。圣言在他们那里发光而透明显耀，是因为圣言每一细节之中皆含有属灵意义与属天意义，而这些意义皆在天堂之光中；故主藉这些意义及其光，流入圣言字义，并流入人里面此字义之光。由此，人便从内在知觉承认真理，继而在自己的思维中看见真理；凡他处于为真理本身而有的真理情感中时，莫不如此。盖知觉由情感而来，思维由知觉而来，于是遂有承认；如此承认被称作“信仰”。
231# （3）教义必须由真正的真理构成，但只有那些处于来自主的光照之人才能在圣言的字义中看到真正的真理。光照只来自主，存在于那些热爱真理，因为它们是真理，并使真理成为生活功用的人里面。对其他人来说，圣言里面没有光照。光照只来自主，因为圣言来自衪，因此衪在圣言中。光照被赐给那些热爱真理，因为它们是真理，并使真理成为生活功用的人，因为这些人在主里面，主也在他们里面；事实上，主是真理本身，如论述主的那一章所说明的；当人们照着主的神性真理生活时，也就是说，当他们出于这些真理而履行功用时，他们就爱主，如约翰福音以这些话所教导的：
到那日，你们就知道我在父里面，你们在我里面，我也在你们里面。有了我的诫命又遵守的，这人就是爱我的，我也要爱他，并且要将自己向他显现，我要到他那里去，在他那里作我的住所。（约翰福音14:20，21，23）
他们就是那些阅读圣言时被光照的人；对这些人来说，圣言是发光和透明的。对这些人来说，圣言是发光和透明的，因为属灵意义和属天意义都包含在圣言的每一个细节里面，这些意义在天堂之光中；因此，主通过这些意义及其光流入圣言的属世意义，并流入人里面属世意义的光中。因此，人出于一种内在感知承认真理，然后在他的思维中看到真理。每当他处于为了真理而对真理的情感时，这种事就会发生。因为感知来自情感，思维来自感知；因此，被称为信仰的承认就产生了。
231. 3. The genuine truth in the Word's literal meaning, the truth that is needed for a body of teaching, becomes manifest only to those who have enlightenment from the Lord. Enlightenment comes from the Lord alone and affects people who love truths because they are true and who make them useful in their lives. Other people do not have enlightenment concerning the Word. Enlightenment comes from the Lord alone because the Word is from him, and therefore he is in it. Enlightenment comes to people who love truths because they are true and who make them useful in their lives, because these people are in the Lord and the Lord is in them. The Lord is truth itself, as I showed in the chapter on the Lord. Loving the Lord is living by his divine truths, that is, doing useful things with those truths, as we read in the following words in John:
On that day you will recognize that you are in me and I am in you. The people who love me are the people who have my instructions and follow them. I will love them and will manifest myself to them. I will come to them and make a home with them. (John 14:20-21, 23)
These are the people who are enlightened when they read the Word. For them the Word shines and becomes translucent.
The Word shines for these people and becomes translucent to them because the details in the Word have spiritual and heavenly meanings inside. These meanings are in the light of heaven. The Lord flows through these meanings and their light into the Word's earthly meaning and its light in the people. As a result of this light, the people first acknowledge the truth with deep perception and then see it in their own thought. This happens whenever people have a desire for truth because it is true. This desire, you see, leads to perception, and perception leads to thought. This process leads to the acknowledgment that is known as faith.
231. (iii) THE GENUINE TRUTH IN THE LITERAL SENSE OF THE WORD, ON WHICH DOCTRINE IS BASED, IS NOT VISIBLE TO ANY BUT THOSE WHO ARE ENLIGHTENED BY THE LORD.
Enlightenment comes only from the Lord, and to those who love truths because they are true, and make them their guide to a useful life. No others find enlightenment in the Word. Enlightenment comes only from the Lord, because the Word is from Him and so He is in it. The reason only those are enlightened who love truths because they are true, and make them a guide to a useful life, is that they are in the Lord and the Lord is in them; for the Lord is truth itself, as was shown in the chapter on the Lord. The Lord is loved when one lives in accordance with His Divine truths, and so useful deeds are done by their guidance, as stated in this passage of John:
On that day you will know that you are in me and I in you; he who has my commandments and keeps them loves me, and I shall love him, and I shall show myself to him, and come to him, and make my dwelling with him, John 14:20-21, 23.
Those are meant who are enlightened when they read the Word, and for whom the Word shines and shows through.
[2] The reason why for them the Word shines and shows through is that the details of the Word contain a spiritual and a celestial sense, and these senses are filled with the light of heaven. Therefore the Lord by means of them and their light floods into the natural sense of the Word and the light this sheds on man. So it is that a person acknowledges truth by an inward perception, and then sees it in his thought processes; this happens whenever he has affection for truth for truth's sake. The affection leads to perception, the perception to thought, and thus comes the acknowledgment we call faith.
231. (3) Genuine Truth, of which doctrine must consist, can be seen in the sense of the letter of the Word only by those who are in enlightenment from the Lord. Enlightenment is from the Lord alone, and exists in those who love truths because they are truths, and who make truths uses of life. To no others is enlightenment in the Word possible. Enlightenment is from the Lord alone, because the Word is from Him, and consequently He is in it. Enlightenment is given to those who love truths because they are truths, and who make them uses of life, because such are in the Lord, and the Lord is in them; for the Lord is Truth itself (as shown in the chapter that treats of the Lord); and men love the Lord when they live in accordance with His Divine truths, that is, when from those truths they perform uses, as is taught in these words in John:
In that day ye shall know that ye are in Me and I in you. He that hath My commandments and keepeth them, he it is that loveth Me, and I will love him and will manifest Myself to him and I will come unto him, and make My abode with him (John 14:20, 21, 23).
Such as these are in enlightenment when they read the Word; and with such the Word is both luminous and translucent. With such the Word is both luminous and translucent because a spiritual sense and a celestial sense are contained in every particular of the Word, and these senses are in the light of heaven; and thus by means of these and the light of these the Lord inflows into the natural sense of the Word and into the light of that sense in man; and in consequence man acknowledges truth from an interior perception, and then sees it in his thought, and this as often as he is in an affection for truth for the sake of truth. For perception comes from affection, and thought from perception; and thus the acknowledgment, which is called faith, is produced.
231. (3) GENUINE TRUTH, WHICH IS THE SOURCE OF DOCTRINE, IS MANIFEST IN THE SENSE OF THE LETTER OF THE WORD ONLY TO THOSE WHO ARE ENLIGHTENED BY THE LORD.
Enlightenment comes from the Lord alone, and is granted to those who love truths because they are truths, and who apply them to the uses of life; with others, there is no enlightenment in the Word. Enlightenment comes from the Lord alone, because the Word is from Him, and consequently He is in it; and it is granted to those who love truths because they are truths, and who apply them to the uses of life, because they are in the Lord and the Lord in them; for the Lord is Truth itself, as was shown in the chapter concerning Him. Then the Lord is loved when men live according to His Divine truths, and so perform uses from them, according to these words in John:
"At that day ye shall know... that ye are in Me, and I in you. He that hath My commandments and keepeth them, he it is that loveth Me... and I will love him, and will manifest Myself to him... and I (A.V., we) will make My (A.V., our) abode with him" 14:20-21, 23.
These are they who are enlightened when they read the Word, and with whom the Word is lucid and transparent. With them the Word so appears, because there is a spiritual as well as a celestial sense in every part of it, and these senses are in the light of heaven. Therefore by means of these senses and their light, the Lord flows into the natural sense of the Word and into the light of this sense in man. Consequently a man acknowledges the truth from an interior perception, and afterwards sees it in his own thought. This happens as often as he is in the affection of truth for its own sake; for perception comes from affection, and thought from perception; and thus arises that acknowledgment which is called faith.
231. III. QUOD GENUINUM VERUM, QUOD DOCTRINAE ERIT, IN SENSU LITERAE VERBI, NON APPAREAT ALIIS, QUAM QUI IN ILLUSTRATIONE SUNT A DOMINO. Illustratio est a Solo Domino, et apud illos, qui amant vera quia vera sunt, et faciunt illa usus vitae; apud alios non datur illustratio in Verbo. Quod illustratio sit a Solo Domino, est quia Verbum est ab Ipso, et inde Ipse in illo; quod illustratio sit illis, qui amant vera quia vera sunt, et faciunt illa usus vitae, est quia illi in Domino sunt et Dominus in illis, est enim Dominus ipsa Veritas, ut in Capite de Domino ostensum est; et tunc Dominus amatur, quando vivitur secundum Divina Ipsius vera, ita quando fiunt usus ex illis, secundum haec apud Johannem, "In die illo cognoscetis, quod vos in Me, et Ego in vobis; qui habet praecepta Mea et facit illa, ille amat Me, et Ego amabo illum, et manifestabo illi Me Ipsum, et ad illum veniam, et mansionem apud illum faciam," Cap. 14:20-21, 23. Hi sunt, qui in illustratione sunt, cum legunt Verbum, et apud quos Verbum lucet et translucet.
[2] Quod Verbum apud illos luceat et transluceat, est quia singulis Verbi Sensus spiritualis et Coelestis inest, et hi Sensus sunt in luce Coeli, quare Dominus per illos et illorum lucem, influit in Sensum naturalem Verbi, et in hujus lucem apud hominem; inde homo ex interiore perceptione agnoscit Verum, et dein in cogitatione sua videt illud, et hoc quoties in affectione veri propter Verum est; ex affectione enim venit perceptio, ex perceptione cogitatio, et sic fit agnitio, quae fides vocatur.