250、创世记3:15.我要把敌意放在你和女人，你的种和她的种之间；祂要踹你的头，你要伤祂的脚跟。
众所周知，这是关于主降世的第一个预言；事实上，这从文字本身明显看出来；因此，就连犹太人也从这些话和先知书知道有一位弥赛亚要降临。然而，迄今为止，没有人明白“蛇”、“女人”、“蛇的种”、“女人的种”、祂所要踹的“蛇的头”和蛇要伤的“脚跟”具体表示什么。因此，必须对它们加以解释。此处，“蛇”表示总体上的一切邪恶，尤表自我之爱；“女人”表示教会；“蛇的种”表示一切不信；“女人的种”表示对主的信；“祂”表示主自己；“蛇的头”表示总体上邪恶的统治，尤表自我之爱的统治；“踹”表示压下，以使它“用肚子行走”并“吃尘土”；“脚跟”表示属世层的最低部分，也就是肉体之物，这是蛇要“伤”的。
New Century Edition
Cooper(2008,2013)
[NCE]250. Genesis 3:15. "And I will put hostility between you and the woman and between your seed and her seed. He will trample you on the head and you will wound him on the heel."
It escapes no one today that this is the first prophecy of the Lord's coming into the world. The words themselves make it clear. From this prediction and from the prophets, even Jews know that a messiah will come.{*1} No one yet, however, knows the specific meaning of each part — the snake, the woman, the snake's seed, the woman's seed, the snake's head that he will trample, and the heel that the snake will wound. An explanation, then, is due.
The snake refers in general to all evil and particularly to self-love. The woman refers to the church. The snake's seed refers to all unbelief. The woman's seed refers to faith in the Lord. He refers to the Lord himself. The snake's head refers to the tyranny of evil in general and of self-love in particular. Trampling refers to pushing it down until it travels on its belly and eats dirt. The heel refers to what is bottommost on the earthly level, such as an orientation toward the body; this is what the snake is going to wound.
Footnotes:
{*1} On Swedenborg's attitude toward Jews, see note 4 in 259 and the reader's guide, pages 51-55 [NCBSP: Available from Swedenborg Foundation]. Jewish Messianism is based on references in the Hebrew Scriptures to an anointed one (Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ [māšîaḥ], sometimes transliterated in English as Mashiach or Moshiach), such as Psalms 2:2; 18:50; Isaiah 45:1; Lamentations 4:20; and on many prophecies seen as related, such as Isaiah 11. [JSR]
Potts(1905-1910) 250
250. Verse 15. And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; He shall trample upon thy head, and thou shalt bruise His heel. Everyone is aware that this is the first prophecy of the Lord's advent into the world; it appears indeed clearly from the words themselves, and therefore from them and from the prophets even the Jews knew that a Messiah was to come. Hitherto however no one has understood what is specifically meant by the "serpent" the "woman" the "serpent's seed" the "woman's seed" the "head of the serpent which was to be trodden upon" and the "heel which the serpent should bruise." They must therefore be explained. By the "serpent" is here meant all evil in general, and specifically the love of self; by the "woman" is meant the church; by the "seed of the serpent" all infidelity; by the "seed of the woman" faith in the Lord; by "He" the Lord Himself; by the "head of the serpent" the dominion of evil in general, and specifically that of the love of self; by to "trample upon" depression, so that it should "go upon the belly and eat dust;" and by the "heel" the lowest natural (as the corporeal), which the serpent should "bruise."
Elliott(1983-1999) 250
250. Verse 15 And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. He will tread down your head, and you will bruise His heel.
Nobody today is unaware that this is the first prediction concerning the Lord's Coming into the world; indeed it is quite clear from the words themselves. From them and from the Prophets the Jews also know that a Messiah is going to come. But nobody as yet knows what the serpent, the woman, the seed of the serpent, the seed of the woman, the head of the serpent which He will tread down, and the heel which the serpent will bruise, are used to mean in particular. Therefore these must be explained. 'The serpent' is here used to mean in general all evil, and in particular self-love. 'The woman' is used to mean the Church, 'the seed of the serpent 'all faithlessness, 'the seed of the woman' faith in the Lord, 'He' the Lord Himself, 'the head of the serpent' the reign of evil in general, and of self-love in particular. 'Treading down' is used to mean forcing down so that it goes on its belly and eats dust, and 'the heel' the lowest part of the natural which is the bodily, which the serpent will bruise.
Latin(1748-1756) 250
250. Vers. 15. Et inimicitiam ponam inter te, et inter mulierem; et inter semen tuum, et inter semen ejus; Ille conculcabit tibi caput, et tu laedes Illi calcaneum. Neminem hodie latet quod haec sit prima prophetia de Adventu Domini in mundum; ex ipsis verbis etiam clare constat; inde et ex Prophetis sciunt etiam Judaei quod venturus Messias. Sed nondum quisquam novit quid per serpentem, per mulierem, per semen serpentis, per semen mulieris, per caput serpentis quod Ille conculcabit, et per calcaneum quod serpens laesurus, in specie intelligatur, quare haec exponenda. Per 'serpentem' hic intelligitur in genere omne malum, in specie amor sui: per 'mulierem' intelligitur Ecclesia: per 'semen serpentis' omnis infidelitas: per 'semen mulieris' fides in Dominum: per 'Ille' Ipse Dominus: per 'caput serpentis' dominium mali in genere, et amoris sui in specie: per 'proculcare' depressio ut ambulet super ventre et edat pulverem: per 'calcaneum' infimum naturale ut corporeum, quod laesurus serpens.