1588、“如同耶和华的园子”表示外在人的理性事物或理性概念。这从“耶和华的园子”的含义清楚可知，“耶和华的园子”是指聪明（参看100节），因而是指理性层，理性层是内在人与外在人之间的媒介。理性层是外在人的聪明。当理性层是属天的，也就是来自一个属天源头时，经上就说“耶和华的园子”，如上古教会的情形。论到它，以赛亚书是这样说的：
耶和华要安慰锡安，安慰她所有的荒场，使她的旷野像伊甸，使她的荒漠像耶和华的园子。其中必有欢喜和快乐，称谢和歌唱声。（以赛亚书51:3）
然而，当理性层是属灵的，也就是来自一个属灵源头时，经上就说“神的园”，如古教会的情形。论到它，以西结书是这样说的：
你智慧充足，全然美丽，曾在伊甸神的园中。（以西结书28:12-13）
人的理性层由于出现在天堂的园子的代表而好比一个园子；当某种属天-属灵之物从主流入或作用于人的理性层时，它只显现为一个园子。事实上，它甚至呈现出郁郁葱葱的天堂乐园的景象，其壮观和美丽超出人类头脑所能想象的一切。这是来自主的属天-属灵之光的流注产生的效果（1042，1043节）。触动观者内心的，并不是这些园子的可爱和美丽，而是活在它们里面的属天-属灵元素。
New Century Edition
Cooper(2008,2013)
[NCE]1588. Like the garden of Jehovah symbolizes the rational ideas of the outer self. This can be seen from the symbolism of Jehovah's garden as intelligence (discussed in 搂100) and so as the rational plane, which is midway between the inner self and the outer. The rational plane is the same thing as the intelligence of the outer self.
The term garden of Jehovah is used when our rational mind is heavenly, or when it comes from a heavenly origin, as it did in the people of the earliest church. Isaiah speaks of it this way:
Jehovah will comfort Zion, he will comfort all its wastelands, and he will make its wilderness like Eden and its desert like a garden of Jehovah. Joy and gladness will be found in it; acclamation and the voice of song. (Isaiah 51:3)
The term garden of God, on the other hand, is used when our rational mind is spiritual, or when it comes from a spiritual origin, as it did in the people of the ancient church. Ezekiel speaks of it this way:
You were full of wisdom and perfect in beauty in Eden, the garden of God. (Ezekiel 28:12-13)
Human rationality is compared to a garden because of a representative type of garden that appears in heaven. Human rationality is what presents itself in this way and no other, when something heavenly and spiritual from the Lord acts on it. In fact it even presents the sight of lush parks whose magnificence and beauty exceed anything the human imagination can invent. This is the effect that results when heavenly-spiritual light flows in from the Lord, as mentioned before in 搂搂1042, 1043. It is not the pleasures and beauties themselves of these parks that touch the heart but the heavenly-spiritual entities alive inside them.
Potts(1905-1910) 1588
1588. Like the garden of Jehovah. That this signifies its rational things, is evident from the signification of "the garden of Jehovah," as being intelligence (see n. 100), and consequently the rational, which is the medium between the internal and the external man. The rational is the intelligence of the external man. The expression "garden of Jehovah" is used when the rational is celestial, that is, from a celestial origin, as it was with the Most Ancient Church, concerning which in Isaiah:
Jehovah will comfort Zion; He will comfort all her waste places, and will make her wilderness as Eden, and her desert as the garden of Jehovah; joy and gladness shall be found in her, confession and the voice of a song (Isa. 51:3). But the expression "garden of God" is used when the rational is spiritual, that is, from a spiritual origin, as it was in the Ancient Church, spoken of in Ezekiel:
Full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty, thou hast been in Eden the garden of God (Ezek. 28:12-13). Man's rational is compared to a "garden," from the representative that is presented in heaven; it is man's rational that appears as a garden when the celestial spiritual flows into it from the Lord; and even paradises are from this presented to the sight, which in magnificence and beauty surpass every idea of human imagination, which is the effect of the influx of celestial spiritual light from the Lord (spoken of before, n. 1042, 1043). The pleasant and the beautiful things of these paradises are not what affect the beholder, but the celestial spiritual things that live in them.
Elliott(1983-1999) 1588
1588. 'Like the garden of Jehovah' means the rational concepts in the external man. This is clear from the meaning of 'the garden of Jehovah' as intelligence, dealt with in 100, consequently the rational which comes in between the internal man and the external man. The rational is intelligence as it exists in the external man. It is called 'the garden of Jehovah' when the rational is celestial, that is, when it has a celestial origin, as was the case with the Most Ancient Church. This is described in Isaiah as follows,
Jehovah will comfort Zion, He will comfort all her waste places, and will make her wilderness like Eden and her desert like the garden of ]Jehovah. Joy and gladness will be found in her, confession and the voice of song. Isa 51:3.
When however the rational is spiritual, that is, when it has a spiritual origin, as was the case with the Ancient Church, the expression 'the garden of God' is used, as in Ezekiel,
Full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty, you were in Eden, the garden of God. Ezek 28:12,13.
A person's rational is compared to a garden because this is how it is represented in heaven. It is man's rational that manifests itself in just this way when that which is celestial-spiritual flows into it from the Lord. Indeed it is this which presents to view the paradise gardens whose magnificence and beauty surpass everything the human mind can imagine. This is the effect which the influx of celestial-spiritual light from the Lord produces, as dealt with already in 1042,1043. It is not the loveliness and beauty of these gardens that stir the emotions but the celestial-spiritual elements that live within them.
Latin(1748-1756) 1588
1588. Quod 'sicut hortus Jehovae' significet ejus rationalia, constat a significatione 'horti Jehovae' quod sit intelligentia, de qua n. 100, proinde rationale quod medium est inter hominem internum et externum; rationale est hominis externi intelligentia; 'hortus Jehovae dicitur' cum rationale caeleste est, hoc est, ex origine caelesti, ut fuit apud Antiquissimam Ecclesiam, de quo ita apud Esaiam, Consolabitur Jehovah Zionem, consolabitur omnes vastitates illius, et ponet desertum illius tanquam Eden, et solitudinem illius sicut Hortum Jehovae; gaudium et laetitia invenietur in ea, confessio et vox cantus, li 3;at 'Hortus Dei' dicitur cum rationale est spirituale, hoc est, ex origine spirituali, ut apud Ecclesiam Antiquam, de quo apud Ezechielem, Plenus sapientia, et perfectus pulchritudine, in Eden Horto Dei fuisti, xxviii (x)12, 13. Rationale hominis comparatur horto ex repraesentativo quod sistitur in caelo; est rationale hominis, in quod cum influit caeleste spirituale a Domino, quod non aliter apparet; immo etiam inde sistuntur visibiles paradisi quae omnem imaginationis humanae ideam magnificentia et pulchritudine excedunt, quod est effectus influxus lucis caelestis spiritualis a Domino, de quo prius n. 1042, 1043; nec sunt amoenitates et pulchritudines paradisiacae quae afficiunt, sed sunt caelestia spiritualia quae in illis vivunt.