1902、“亚伯兰听从了撒莱的声音”表示这种事无法以其它任何方式实现，这从内义上的思路，以及人类理性只能以这种方式出生的必要性清楚可知。如果人没有充满遗传之恶，那么理性就会直接从内在人的属天事物与其属灵事物的婚姻中生出；认知能力也会通过理性生出。这意味着一来到这个世界，一个人就会立刻在自己里面拥有完全形成的推理和认知官能，因为这一切都符合流注的秩序。这一点从以下事实可以推断出来，即：所有动物，无一例外，生来都有一种完全形成的认知能力，知道自己需要并适合吃什么，如何获得安全，住在哪里，如何繁育后代，因为它们与生俱来的本性符合秩序。为何人生来没有这种能力呢？原因无它：秩序在他里面已经遭到破坏，唯独人生来没有任何知识。
致使人生来没有任何知识的，是从父母那里获得的遗传之恶。由于这种邪恶，就真理和良善而言，他的一切官能都被转到相反方向上，因此不能通过来自主的属天和属灵事物的直接流注而被转变成对应的形式。这就是人的理性不得不以一种完全不同的方式或过程来形成的原因，也就是说，它不得不借助经由感官所吸收，因而通过一种外在途径进入的知识和认知，因此以一种颠倒的秩序而形成。主就这样以一种奇迹般的方式使人变得理性。这一点被描述为“和婢女同房”，这句话表示内在人与外在人的结合；这一点也被描述为“亚伯兰听从了撒莱的声音”，这句话表示这种事无法以其它任何方式实现。
主因和其他人一样出生，并有来自母亲的一种遗传，所以在奇迹般地通过知识形成理性这方面和其他人也是一样的。对祂来说，目的就是使祂可以通过试探的争战和胜利将一切都恢复秩序。因此，祂的理性也和其他人的一样孕育和出生；但不同之处在于：神性或耶和华，因而对整个人类的爱之生命（祂在其一切试探中都是为了人类及其救赎而争战），从至内在就住在属于祂的每一个事物里面。
Potts(1905-1910) 1902
1902. And Abram harkened to the voice of Sarai. That this signifies that it could not be done in any other way, may be seen from the connection in the internal sense, and from the necessity that exists for the rational to be born in this way. If man were imbued with no hereditary evil, the rational would then be born immediately, from the marriage of the celestial things of the internal man with its spiritual things, and the faculty of knowing would be born through the rational, so that on coming into the world a man would at once have in himself all the faculty of reason and of knowing, for this would be in accordance with the order of influx, as may be inferred from the fact that all animals whatever are born into all the faculty of knowing that is necessary and helpful in securing food, safety, habitation, and procreation, because their nature is in accordance with order. Why then is man not born into it, except for the reason that order has been destroyed in him, for he alone is born into no knowledge? [2] The cause of his being so born is evil inherited from his father and mother. By reason of this all his faculties are turned in a contrary direction in regard to truths and goods, and therefore cannot be reduced into correspondent forms by the immediate influx of what is celestial and spiritual from the Lord. This is the reason why man's rational must be formed by an altogether different process, that is, in a different way, namely, by means of knowledges [scientifica et cognitiones] introduced through the senses, thus flowing in by an external way, and so in inverted order. Man is thus made rational by the Lord in a miraculous manner. This is meant by "going in unto the handmaid," by which is signified the conjunction of the internal man with the exterior man; and also by "Abram's hearkening to the voice of Sarai," which signifies that it could not be done in any other way. [3] The Lord, being born as are other men, and because He had a nature inherited from the mother, was like other men also in respect to the miraculous formation of the rational by means of knowledges, to the end that by combats of temptations and by victories He might reduce all things into order. Therefore was His rational conceived and born in the same way as with other men, but with the difference that inmostly in all things that were His, in both general and particular, there was the Divine, or Jehovah, and thus the life of love toward the whole human race, for whom and for whose salvation He fought in all His temptations.
Elliott(1983-1999) 1902
1902. 'And Abram hearkened to Sarai's voice' means it could not have been achieved in any other way. This becomes clear from the train of thought in the internal sense and from the necessity that the human rational can be born in this and no other way. If man were not steeped in any hereditary evil, the rational would be born straightaway from the marriage of the celestial things belonging to the internal man with the spiritual things belonging to the same; and through the rational the faculty of knowing would be born. This would mean that on entering the world a person would possess straightaway within himself fully-formed faculties of reason and of knowing, for this would all be in accordance with the order that belongs to influx. This may be deduced from the fact that all animals without exception are born into a fully-formed faculty of knowing what they need and what is suitable for them in the way of food, safety, habitat, and producing offspring, because their inborn nature is in accordance with order. For what other reason is man born without the same faculties than that in his case order has been destroyed - for he alone is born without any knowledge?
[2] That which causes him to be born without any knowledge is hereditary evil received from his father and from his mother. Because of that evil all his faculties are turned in a contrary direction insofar as goods and truths are concerned, so that the latter are not able through an immediate influx of celestial and spiritual things from the Lord to be translated into correspondent forms. This is the reason why man's rational has to be formed in an entirely different manner or way, that is to say, by means of facts and cognitions entering in through the senses, and so by the external route, thus by what is a reversal of order. In this way, miraculously so, a person is made rational by the Lord. This is described by 'going in to the servant-girl', which means the joining of the internal man to the exterior man, and by the statement that 'Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai', which means that it could not have been achieved in any other way.
[3] Because the Lord was born as any other is born and had a heredity from the mother, He was like any other in this respect also, the purpose being that through the conflicts brought about by temptations and through victories He might restore all things to order. His Rational as well therefore was conceived and born as it is with any other, yet with the difference that the Divine, or Jehovah - and so the life belonging to love towards the whole human race, on whose behalf and for whose salvation He fought in all His temptations - resided in every single thing that was His inmostly.
Latin(1748-1756) 1902
1902. `Et auscultavit Abram voci Sarai': quod significet non aliter fieri potuisse, constare potest a serie rerum in sensu interno et e necessitate quod rationale apud hominem non aliter nasci possit. Si homo nullo hereditario malo imbutus esset, tunc nasceretur rationale immediate ex conjugio caelestium interni hominis cum spiritualibus ejus, et per rationale nasceretur scientificum, sic ut homo omni rationale et omne scientificum ilico dum venit in mundum, secum haberet; hoc enim foret secundum ordinem influxus; quod concludi potest ex eo quod omnia animalia quaecumque sunt, nascantur in omne scientificum quod illis ad victum eorum, tutelam, habitatione' et procreationem necessarium est et conducit, quia eorum natura e secundum ordinem. Quod non homo, nisi apud eum ordo foret destructus, nam solus in nullam scientiam nascitur? [2] Quod facit ut ita nascatur, est malum hereditarium a patre et matre, inde omnes ejus facultates sunt in contrario versu respective ad vera et bona, quae formas correspondentes redigi nequeunt per influxum immediatum caelestium et spiritualium a Domino; quae causa est quod alio prorsus modo seu alia via formandum sit rationale hominis, nempe per scientifica et cognitiones insinuata per sensus, ita influentia per via: externam, sic {1} ordine inverso; homo sic miraculose a Domino rationalis fit; hoc intelligitur per `ingredi ad ancillam,' quo significatur conjunctio interni hominis cum exteriore et per quod `Abram auscultavit voci Sarai,' quo significatur quod non aliter fieri potuisset. [3] Dominus quia natus sicut alius homo et a matre hereditarium habuit, similis alii homini in hoc fuit, ob causam ut per pugnas tentationum et victorias redigeret omnia in ordinem; ideo etiam {2} Rationale Ipsius similiter conceptum et natum fuit ac apud alium hominem, cum differentia quod Divinum seu Jehovah fuit in omnibus et singulis Ipsius intime, ita vita amoris erga universum genus humanum, pro quo et cujus {3} salvatione in omnibus suis tentationibus pugnavit. @1 ita.$ @2 quoque.$ @3 ejus.$