190、这几节论述的主题是上古教会的第三个状态；在这种状态下，人们心系自我，甚至到了热爱它的地步。
New Century Edition
Cooper(2008,2013)
[NCE]190. Genesis 3
1. And the snake was crafty above every wild animal of the field that Jehovah God had made, and it said to the woman, "Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree of the garden'?"
2. And the woman said to the snake, "We are to eat from the fruit of the tree of the garden.
3. But from the fruit of the tree that is in the middle of the garden, God said, ‘You may not eat from it, nor are you to touch it, or you will die from it.'"
4. And the snake said to the woman, "You are not going to ‘surely die,'
5. because God knows that on the day when you eat from it, your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."
6. And the woman saw that the tree was good for eating, and that it was appealing to the eyes, and a tree desirable for lending insight. And she took some of its fruit and ate, and she gave to her husband too, who was with her, and he ate.
7. And the eyes of both were opened and they realized that they were naked. And they sewed together the leaf of the fig tree and made loincloths for themselves.
8. And they heard the voice of Jehovah God, going alone in the garden at the breeze of the day. And the human hid himself, as did his wife, from Jehovah God's face, in the middle of the tree of the garden.{*1} 9. And Jehovah God called to the human and said to him, "Where are you?"
10. And he said, "I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked, and I hid myself."
11. And he said, "Who pointed out to you that you were naked? You ate from the tree from which I commanded you not to eat, didn't you?"
12. And the human said, "The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me from the tree and I ate."
13. And Jehovah God said to the woman, "Why have you done this?" And the woman said, "The snake deceived me and I ate."
190. Summary
THESE verses deal with the third stage of the earliest church, in which people's eagerness for autonomy amounted to a passion.
Footnotes:
{*1} (in the text of Genesis 3:8). "Tree" here is usually taken as a collective noun for all the trees in the garden, among which the woman and her husband were walking, but Swedenborg sees significance in the singular form of the word, as he explains in 218. [LHC]
Potts(1905-1910) 190
190. THE CONTENTS. The third state of the Most Ancient Church is treated of, which so desired its Own as to love it.
Elliott(1983-1999) 190
190.
Latin(1748-1756) 190
190. CONTENTA AGITUR: de Tertio Statu Ecclesiae Antiquissimae, quae proprium affectabat, usque ut amaret.