2290、那些对死后生活状态一无所知的人可能以为小孩子一进入来世，就会获得天使的聪明和智慧。但大量经历指教我，情况根本不是这样。那些出生后不久即死去的婴儿具有和世上的婴儿几乎一样的心智；他们所知的也不会更多，因为他们只有学习、发展理解力并变得智慧的官能。然而，这种官能更完美，因为他们没有肉体，而是灵人。我不仅听见，还看见小孩子刚进入天堂时就是这样，因为有几次蒙主的神性怜悯，一批批的小孩子被送到我这里，我还有幸给他们读了主祷文。在这些时候，我有机会了解陪伴他们的天使如何将主祷文的信息概念引入孩子们稚嫩和新形成的观念中。小孩子的心智越能吸收，天使赋予他们的观念就越全面。后来，我看到小孩子们如何被赋予貌似凭自己思想这类事物的能力。
Potts(1905-1910) 2290
2290. They who know nothing about the state of the life after death may suppose that little children are in angelic intelligence and wisdom as soon as they come into the other life; but I have been instructed by much experience that such is not the case. Those who die not long after birth are of an infantile mind, almost as on earth, nor do they know anything more; for they possess only the faculty of knowing, and from this of understanding, and from this of being wise; which faculty is more perfect because they are not in the body, but are spirits. That they are so when they first come into heaven, has not merely been told, but has also been shown me; for of the Lord's Divine mercy little children have on several occasions been sent to me in choirs, and I have also been allowed to read to them the Lord's Prayer; and at the same time I have been given to perceive how the angels in whose company they were, insinuated into their tender and novitiate ideas the meaning of the things which are in this Prayer, and filled them, so far as the little ones were able to receive; and afterwards how the capacity was given the little ones of thinking such things as it were from themselves.
Elliott(1983-1999) 2290
2290. People who know nothing about the state of the life after death may think that young children acquire angelic intelligence and wisdom the moment they enter the next life. But I have learned through much experience that this is not so at all. Those who die not long after birth have the minds of young children, almost the same as on earth. Nor is the amount of what they know any greater, for they possess no more than the capacity to know, and from this to have intelligence and from this to be wise. Yet that capacity is more perfect because they are not living in the body but are spirits. That this is the mental condition of young children when they first enter heaven I have not merely been told but have also been shown, for on several occasions, in the Lord's Divine mercy, groups of young children have been sent to me, and I have been allowed to read the Lord's Prayer to them. As I did so I was given to perceive how the angels whose company they were in were instilling into their tender and newly-formed ideas the meaning of the things that are in the Lord's Prayer- filling their ideas with it in the measure that the young children were able to receive it - and after that how the young children were given the capacity to think about things such as these as if from themselves.
Latin(1748-1756) 2290
2290. Qui nihil de statu vitae post mortem sciunt, opinari possunt quod infantes, ilico dum in alteram vitam veniunt, in intelligentia et sapientia angelica sint; sed quod aliter se habeat, per multam experientiam instructus sum; qui non diu post nativitatem obeunt, sunt infantili mente paene sicut {1} in terra nec quicquam plus sciunt, modo enim secum habent facultatem sciendi, ex {2} hac intelligendi, et ex hac sapiendi, quae facultas perfectior est quia non in corpore sunt sed sunt spiritus: quod tales sint cum primum in caelum veniunt, non modo mihi dictum est sed etiam ostensum; aliquibus enim vicibus, ex Divina Domini Misericordia, ad me infantes in choris missi sunt, et concessum quoque praelegere illis Orationem Domini, et simul tunc datum percipere quomodo angeli in quorum consortio fuerunt, in teneras et novitias illorum ideas sensum rerum quae in Oratione Domini, insinuarent, et illas quantum recipere potuerunt, implere; et dein quomodo illis data copia cogitandi similia sicut ex se. @1 sunt.$ @2 i et.$