1776、当小男孩和小女孩阅读圣言时，天使对圣言内义的理解比当那些缺乏仁之信的成年人阅读它时更好、更充分，这似乎是一个悖论，但却是最真实的。我被告知原因，即：小男孩和小女孩处于相爱和纯真的状态，因此他们最柔嫩的器皿几乎是天堂的，具有简单的容量来接受能被主预备好去接受的东西。然而，他们没有意识到主正在做的这一切，除非通过适合他们口味和性情的某种快乐有所感知。天使说，主的圣言是死的文字，但在阅读它的每个人里面被主照着各人的接受能力，也照着他生活中所表达的仁爱和纯真状态而活过来。这种情况会以无数不同方式发生。
New Century Edition
Cooper(2008,2013)
[NCE]1776. It may seem perplexing — although it is absolutely true — that angels understand the Word's inner meaning better and more fully when young girls and boys read it than when adults who lack a faith born of neighborly love do. The reason I was given is that young boys and girls are at a stage of innocence and mutual love. So the vessels [of their minds] are very tender, almost heavenly, completely open to outside influences, and therefore capable of being molded by the Lord. (They are unaware of his molding, however, except perhaps through a kind of delight perfectly suited to their tastes.)
The Lord's Word, the angels said, is dead verbiage, but he brings it alive in the person who reads it. He gives it as much life as each of us is capable of receiving, and the more charity we express in our lives and the more innocent we are, the more living the Word becomes. This happens in countless different ways.
Potts(1905-1910) 1776
1776. It may seem a paradox, but still it is most true, that the angels understand the internal sense of the Word better and more fully when little boys and girls are reading it, than when it is read by adult persons who are not in the faith of charity. The cause has been told me, and is that little boys and girls are in a state of mutual love and innocence, and thus their most tender vessels are almost heavenly, and are simply capacities for receiving, which therefore can be disposed by the Lord; although this does not come to their perception, except by a certain delight suited to their genius. It was said by the angels that the Word of the Lord is a dead letter; but that in him that reads it is vivified by the Lord according to the capacity of each one; and that it becomes living according to the life of his charity and his state of innocence, and this with inexpressible variety.
Elliott(1983-1999) 1776
1776. Though it may seem paradoxical it is nevertheless perfectly true that angels have a better and fuller understanding of the internal sense of the Word when very young boys and girls are reading it than when adults do so with whom there is no faith grounded in charity. I have been told the reason why, and it is this: Very young boys and girls live in a state of mutual love and innocence, and so their most tender vessels are almost heavenly, being simply capacities for receiving which are able to be made ready by the Lord to receive. No awareness however of what He is doing enters into their perceptions except through a certain delight in keeping with their character and disposition. The angels said that the Word of the Lord is a dead letter, but that in everyone, when he is reading it, it is given life by the Lord, each according to his capacity to receive it, and that it is made alive according to the life in his charity and according to his state of innocence. This happens in countless and varied ways.
Latin(1748-1756) 1776
1776. Paradoxon potest videri sed usque est verissimum, quod angeli melius et plenius intelligant sensum internum Verbi, cum infantes pueri et puellae legunt illud, quam cum adulti qui non in fide charitatis; causa mihi dicta, quia infantes pueri et puellae sunt in statu amoris mutui et innocentiae, ita vasa illorum tenerrima paene caelestia, et modo facultates recipiendi, quae ita a Domino disponi queunt; tametsi hoc ad illorum perceptionem non perveniat, nisi per jucundum quoddam illorum geniis conforme. Ab angelis dictum quod Verbum Domini sit littera mortua, sed quod in legente vivificetur a Domino secundum cujusvis facultatem; et quod vivum fiat secundum ejus charitatis vitam et innocentiae statum, et hoc cum innumerabili varietate.