167、人若知道每一节经文包含多少奥秘，就会大吃一惊。因为每节经文所包含的奥秘如此之多，以至于无法数算。然而，这一点从字面上几乎看不出来。简言之，在灵人界，字面上的话照它们原本的样子以优美的次序被生动表现出来。因为灵人界是一个代表或表现的世界，凡在那里被生动表现出来的，都会被第二层天堂的天使灵感知到，甚至连包含在这些代表里面的细节都被感知到。第三层天堂的天使则以无法形容的天使观念而充分、完全地感知到天使灵以这种方式所感知到的事物。他们照着主的美意而以完全和无限的多样性感知它们。这就是主的圣言。
New Century Edition
Cooper(2008,2013)
[NCE]167. If people realized how much was hidden in each verse, they would be dumbfounded. So much is hidden that it could never be told. This fact is scarcely visible in the letter.
To give some idea in a few words: In the world of spirits (since it is a representative world) the literal words, just as they are, are represented in a living way, arranged in beautiful display. Any live representation in that world is then perceived in all its finer detail by the angelic spirits in the second heaven. What the angelic spirits see is then perceived by the angels in the third heaven in great richness.{*1} These angels see the represented text filled with angelic ideas for which there are no words, and by the Lord's good pleasure, they see it in all its boundless variety. Such is the nature of the Lord's Word.
Footnotes:
{*1} Swedenborg says a little more about the three heavens in 459, 684, 1642. Early in Secrets of Heaven he refers to them as the heaven of good spirits, the heaven of angelic spirits, and the heaven of angels (as late as 2026 he is referring to a heaven of angelic spirits as a separate thing from the heaven of angels), but later he tends simply to number them first, second, and third, and to describe the inhabitants of all of them, or at least of the second and third heavens, as angels. He devotes a chapter of his Heaven and Hell (29-40) to discussing this subject. The apostle Paul also speaks of a third heaven, in 2 Corinthians 12:2. [LHC]
Potts(1905-1910) 167
167. If anyone could know how many arcana each particular verse contains, he would be amazed, for the number of arcana contained is past telling, and this is very little shown in the letter. To state the matter shortly: the words of the letter, exactly as they are, are vividly represented in the world of spirits, in a beautiful order. For the world of spirits is a world of representatives, and whatever is vividly represented there is perceived, in respect to the minute things contained in the representatives, by the angelic spirits who are in the second heaven; and the things thus perceived by the angelic spirits are perceived abundantly and fully in inexpressible angelic ideas by the angels who are in the third heaven, and this in boundless variety in accordance with the Lord's good pleasure. Such is the Word of the Lord.
Elliott(1983-1999) 167
167. But if anyone knew how many arcana each particular verse contains, he would be astounded. Each one contains so many arcana that they cannot possibly be numbered off. Yet this is barely evident at all from the letter. In short, the words of the letter, just as they are, are represented vividly in the world of spirits in wonderful array. For the world of spirits is a representative world, and whatever is represented vividly is perceived by angelic spirits in the second heaven even as to the minor details within those representatives. And the things perceived by angelic spirits in this way angels in the third heaven perceive abundantly and fully in inexpressible angelic ideas. In accordance with the Lord's Good Pleasure, they perceive them in complete and boundless variety. Such is the Word of the Lord.
Latin(1748-1756) 167
167. Sed si quis nosset quantum arcanorum continetur in unoquovis versiculo, obstupesceret; tantum arcanorum continetur ut nusquam edici possit; hoc minime elucet ex littera: ut breviter tradatur; sicut sunt verba litterae, repraesentantur ad vivum in mundo spirituum ordine pulchro, nam mundus spirituum est repraesentativus: et quicquid repraesentatur ad vivum, hoc percipitur in altero caelo a spiritibus angelicis quoad minutiora quae in repraesentatis: quae a spiritibus angelicis, haec in tertio caelo ab angelis copiose et plene ideis angelicis, inexpressibilibus, et quidem secundum Beneplacitum Domini, omni varietate, quae indefinita. Tale est Verbum Domini.