1121、我从上古教会成员的后代那里了解到他们的感知状态，即：他们对属于信的一切拥有一种感知，几乎就像与他们交流的天使。其中一个原因是，他们的内层人或灵，也通过内呼吸与天堂联结。另一个原因是，对主之爱和对邻之爱就伴随这种交流，拥有天堂在里面。因为这两种爱将世人与天使通过其生命的本质核心联结在一起，其生命的本质核心就在于这爱。他们说，他们拥有写在他们里面的律法，因为他们爱主、爱邻。正因如此，凡律法所规定的，都与他们的感知相一致；凡律法所禁止的，都与他们的感知相冲突。他们毫不怀疑，一切人类律法和神性律法一样，都建立在对主之爱和对邻之仁之上，并视爱和仁为它们的根基。当然，他们因从主拥有这种根基，故不能不知道建立在它上面的一切。他们还相信，今天世界上凡爱主、爱邻的人，也都拥有写在他们里面的律法，并且在世界各地成为受欢迎的公民，如同在来世受到欢迎一样。
New Century Edition
Cooper(2008,2013)
[NCE]1121. The progeny of the earliest church have taught me about the level of perception they had enjoyed. They had possessed the ability to perceive any proposition of faith, almost to the same degree as angels, with whom they communicated. One reason was that their inner self — their spirit — was united to heaven by means of internal breathing. Another was that love for the Lord and love for one's neighbor carry this communication with them, because these two kinds of love unite people on earth with angels through the essential core of their life, which consists in such love. They said they had the law written in them{*1} because they loved the Lord and their neighbor, since everything the laws require consequently agreed with their perception and everything the laws prohibit conflicted with their perception.
They had no doubt that all human laws resembled divine laws in being founded on love for the Lord and charity for one's neighbor and in looking to love and charity as their basis.
Of course since they had a foundation from the Lord inside themselves, they knew everything that was built on it.
They believe too that all those alive in the world today who love the Lord and their neighbor also have the law written in them and are welcomed as citizens anywhere on earth, just as any such people are welcomed in the other life.
Footnotes:
{*1} The notion of God's law being written on the heart or mind can be found in Isaiah 51:7; Jeremiah 31:33; Romans 2:15; Hebrews 8:10; 10:16. [SS, JSR]
Potts(1905-1910) 1121
1121. I have been informed by sons of the Most Ancient Church concerning the state of their perception, that they had perception of all things that belong to faith, almost as have the angels with whom they had communication; for the reason that their interior man, or spirit, by means also of the internal respiration, was joined to heaven; and that love to the Lord and love toward the neighbor are attended with this; for man is thus conjoined with angels through their veriest life, which consists in such love. They said that they had the law written upon them, because they were in love to the Lord and love toward the neighbor; and such being the case, whatever the laws prescribe was in agreement with their perception, and whatever the laws forbid was contrary to it. Nor did they doubt that all laws, human as well as Divine, are founded in love to the Lord and charity toward the neighbor, and regard these as their fundamental. Wherefore, as they had this fundamental in them, from the Lord, they could not but know all things that were from it. They believe too that those who live in the world at this day, who love the Lord and the neighbor, have also the law written upon them, and are acceptable citizens everywhere on earth, as the same are in the other life.
Elliott(1983-1999) 1121
1121. I have learned from members' of the Most Ancient Church about their state of perception - that they had a perception of everything that was a matter of faith, almost as the angels did with whom they were in communication. The reason they had it was that their interior man, which is the spirit, was joined - also by means of internal breathing - to heaven, and that love to the Lord and love towards the neighbour have heaven within them. Thus man is joined to the angels through their very life itself which consists in such love. They said that because they abided in love to the Lord and in love towards the neighbour they had the law inscribed within them. That being so whatever the laws dictated was in keeping with their perception and whatever the laws forbade was contrary to that perception. Nor did they doubt that all human laws, like Divine laws, are based on love to the Lord and charity towards the neighbour, and regard these as their foundation. Since they had this foundation in them from the Lord they could not help knowing all that arises from it. They also believe that all people living in the world today who love the Lord and the neighbour have this law inscribed within them as well, and are acceptable citizens everywhere on earth just as they are in the next life.
Latin(1748-1756) 1121
1121. Instructus sum ab Antiquissimae Ecclesiae filiis de statu perceptionis illorum, quod nempe perceptionem habuerint omnium quae sunt fidei, paene sicut angeli cum quibus communicationem habuerunt, ex causa quod interior eorum homo, seu spiritus, etiam media respiratione interna junctus fuerit caelo, quodque amor in Dominum et amor erga proximum id secum habeat; sic enim conjungitur homo angelis per ipsissimam eorum vitam, quae consistit in amore tali; dicebant quod inscriptam sibi habuerint legem quia in amore in Dominum et amore erga proximum fuerunt; tunc enim cum perceptione illorum fuit quicquid leges dictant, et contra perceptionem quicquid leges vetant: nec dubitabant quin omnes leges humanae, sicut Divinae, fundentur in amore in Dominum et charitate erga proximum, et spectent illud ut fundamentale suum: quare quia fundamentale in se a Domino habuerunt, non potuerunt aliter ac nosse omnia quae inde: credentes etiam quod omnes qui in mundo hodie vivunt qui Dominum amant et proximum, etiam habeant legem sibi inscriptam, et accepti cives sint ubivis in terra, sicut sunt iidem in altera vita.