801# 荷兰人之所以住在基督教中心区域的这些方位，还有一个原因：贸易是他们所爱的目的，金钱只是为贸易服务的手段；这种爱是属灵的。相反，若金钱成了所爱的目的，而贸易只是为金钱服务的手段，就像犹太人那样，那么这种爱就是属世的，并且带有贪婪。
当经商之爱本身成为目的时，它之所以是属灵的，是因为它的功用在于服务公共之善。当然，个人利益也与公共之善相连，而且在人看来，个人利益似乎比公共之善更加明显，因为人是从自己的属世之人来思想；然而，只要贸易本身是目的，这种爱仍然是属灵的。因为在天堂中，每个人都是按照他的目的之爱而被看待的。
目的之爱好比一国的君主，又好比一家之主；其他各种爱则好比它的臣民和仆人。目的之爱居于心智最高、最内在之处；那些作为手段的爱，则在它之下、在它之外，并按照它的意愿服事它。荷兰人比其他人更处在这种属灵之爱中；而犹太人则处在相反的爱中。因此，他们的经商之爱纯然是属世的，其中没有任何出于公共之善的东西，内里隐藏的只是自己的利益。
801# 荷兰人之所以占据基督教中心的这些方位，是因为贸易是他们最终的爱，金钱是从属于贸易的中间的爱，或说对贸易的爱是他们的主导爱，而对金钱的爱是中间、从属的爱；对贸易的爱是一种属灵之爱。然而，如果对金钱的爱是主导爱，对贸易的爱是中间、从属的爱，就像犹太人那样，那么这爱是属世的，源于贪婪。当对贸易的爱是主导爱时，它因其功用而是属灵的；因为它服务于共同利益，而个人利益，或人自己的利益的确与共同利益紧密相连，但在个人看来，个人利益似乎比共同利益更重要，因为他出于其属世人思考。尽管如此，当贸易是目的时，对它的爱也是目的，或贸易者的主导爱；在天堂，每个人都是根据他最终的爱或主导爱被看待的。最终的爱或主导爱就像一个王国的统治者，或像一家之主，而其它的爱就像臣民或仆人。此外，最终的爱或主导爱存在于心智的最高或至内在区域，而中间的爱在它之下或之外，服从于它的控制，或说对它的每个点头都服从。荷兰人比其他所有人都更处于对贸易的这种属灵之爱。而犹太人处于一种颠倒的爱；因此，他们对贸易的爱是纯属世的，其中不包含任何共同利益，只包含他们自己的利益。
801. Another reason why Dutch people live in these particular parts of the Christian central region is that their highest love and goal is doing business, and they love money only as a means that serves that higher goal. This is a spiritual kind of love to have.
If money is the ultimate goal people love, however, and doing business is loved only as a means that serves that ultimate goal - a situation found among Jews - this is an earthly kind of love to have; it leads to insatiable desire for wealth.
The reason why loving to do business is spiritual when it is the ultimate goal is that business is useful and serves the common good. Yes, their own benefit is also part of the equation; when we are thinking from our earthly selves it may even appear more important than the common good. Nevertheless, when being in business is the goal, it is also what is loved the most; and the goal that we love the most is what is considered most important in heaven. The goal we love the most is like the leader of a country or the head of a household; all the other loves are like that leader's subjects and servants. The goal we love dwells in the highest and inmost regions of our mind. The intermediate loves we have are below and outside that highest love; they follow its commands.
The Dutch, more than other people, have this spiritual type of love. Jews have an inverted version of it; therefore their love of doing business is merely earthly in nature. What lies deep within it is not the common good but their own benefit.
801. A further reason why the Dutch are in those quarters of the Christian nucleus is because trade is the aim of their love, and money the means of serving that aim; and this is a spiritual love. But when money is the aim of their love, and trade the means serving that aim, as in the case of the Jews, that is a natural love, being tainted with avarice. The reason the love of trading is spiritual, provided it is the chief aim, is that its purpose is to serve the good of the community. One's personal good is inseparable from this, and seems to surpass it, because people's thoughts come from the natural man. But so long as trade is the aim, the spiritual love exists too, and in heaven everyone is looked at from the point of view of the aim of his love. This love is like the lord of a realm, or like the master of a household, and the other loves are like his subjects or servants. The love of the aim also resides in the highest and inmost levels of the mind, and the loves which are means are below and outside this, obedient to its command. The Dutch above others have this spiritual love; the Jews the reverse of this love. So in their case the love of trading is wholly natural, having hidden within it no regard for the good of the community, but only that of the self.
801. And the reason why the Dutch occupy those quarters of the Christian center is that business is their final love, and money a mediate love subservient thereto; and such a love is spiritual. But where money is the final love and business a mediate love subservient thereto, as with the Jews, that love is natural and springs from avarice. The love of business,- when final, is spiritual, because of its use, in that it subserves the common good to which indeed the man's own good is closely conjoined and appears to him to be of more importance than the common good, because he thinks from his natural man. Nevertheless, when business is an end, the love of it is also the end, and in heaven everyone is regarded in accordance with his final love; for the final love may be likened to the ruler of a kingdom or the master of a house, and the other loves to their subjects or servants. Moreover, the final love has its seat in the highest or inmost parts of the mind, while the mediate loves are below it or outside of it, and subservient to its every nod. The Dutch are in that spiritual love more than any others. But the Jews are in that love inverted; consequently their love of business is purely natural, containing within it nothing of the common good, but solely their own good.
801. A further reason why the Dutch are in those quarters of the Christian centre is that the love of trading is their chief love, and the love of money a mediate, subordinate love; and the love of trading is a spiritual love. Where the love of money, however, is the chief love, and the love of trading a mediate, subordinate love, as with the Jews, that love is natural, and is grounded in avarice. When the love of trading is the chief love, it is spiritual, owing to its use; for it serves the common good, with which indeed the personal good of the individual is bound up. Yet the good of the individual is more directly apparent than the common good, because the individual thinks from his natural man. Still, when trading is the end in view, its love is the trader's chief love; and every one in heaven is regarded according to his chief love. One's chief love is like the ruler of a kingdom, or like the master of a house, the other loves being like subjects or servants. This chief love, moreover, resides in the highest and inmost regions of the mind, while the mediate loves are beneath and apart, and are subservient to its control. The Dutch, more than all others, are in this spiritual love of trading, whereas the Jews are in an inverted love. Their love of trading, therefore, is merely natural, having in its inmost recesses no regard for the common good, but only for the personal good of the individual.
801. Causa, quod Hollandi in illis Meditullii Christiani Plagis sint, est quoque quia Negotiatio est Amor finalis illorum, ac Pecunia Amor medius inserviens, et ille Amor est spiritualis; at ubi Pecunia est Amor finalis, et Negotiatio amor medius inserviens, quemadmodum apud Judaeos, est ille Amor naturalis, et trahit ex avaritia. Quod Amor negotiandi dum est finalis, sit spiritualis, est ex usu ejus, quod inserviat communi bono; cum quo proprium bonum quidem cohaeret, et hoc prae illo apparet, quia homo ex naturali suo homine cogitat; sed usque dum Negotiatio est finis, est quoque ille amor, et quisque secundum amorem finalem spectatur in Coelo; Amor enim finalis est sicut Dominus Regni, aut sicut herus Domi, et reliqui amores sunt sicut ejus subditi et famuli; et quoque Amor finalis in supremis ac intimis mentis residet, et amores medii sunt infra et extra illum, et serviunt ei ad nutum; in spirituali hoc amore sunt Hollandi prae aliis: at Judaei in Amore inverso, quare Amor negotiandi illorum est mere naturalis, in quo nihil ex communi bono, sed solum ex proprio, intus latet.