2593、我还得着机会与那些生活在古老的时代，在当时属于更有智慧者的人交谈。一开始，我在前面远远地看见他们；他们在那里能感知到我思维的内层，从而能感知到许多事物，并完全看见它们。单单从我的一个思维观念，他们就能知道整个思路，并以智慧的快乐和可爱的代表充满它。这告诉我，他们是一些更有智慧的人；我得知他们来自古老的时代。那时他们接近我；当我给他们读圣言的内容时，他们极为激动。我得以感知到他们的快乐和喜悦本身，这主要源于以下事实：他们从圣言所听到的每一个细节都代表并表示属天和属灵事物。他们说，在他们活在世上时的那个时代，他们思考、说话，以及写作的模式都具有这种性质，这是他们为了获得智慧所研究的东西。
Potts(1905-1910) 2593
2593. I have also been permitted to speak with others who lived in ancient times and who were then among the more wise. They were at first seen in front at a distance, and were there able to perceive the interiors of my thoughts, thus many things in a thorough manner. From one idea of the thought they could know the entire series, and fill it with delightful things of wisdom together with pleasing representations, which showed me that they were among the more wise, and I was told that they were from the Ancients. So they drew nearer, and when I read to them something from the Word they were most highly delighted. It was granted me to perceive their very delight and enjoyment, which arose chiefly from the fact that all the things they heard from the Word were both in general and in particular representative and significative of heavenly and spiritual things. They said that in their time when they lived in the world their mode of thinking and speaking, and also of writing, was of this nature, and that this was their wisdom's study.
Elliott(1983-1999) 2593
2593. I have also been allowed to talk to others who lived in ancient times and who in those times belonged among those with more wisdom than others. First I saw them at a distance in a forward position, and while there they were able to discern the more interior aspects of my thoughts, thus many things completely. From a single idea present in my thought they were able to know a whole sequence and to fill it with the delights of wisdom together with lovely representations. From this I perceived that they belonged among those with more wisdom, and I was told that they were some of the Ancients. So they then drew nearer, and when I read to them something from the Word they were supremely delighted. I was given to perceive their delight and joy itself, which stemmed mainly from the fact that every single detail which they heard from the Word was a representative of and a meaningful sign of celestial and spiritual things. They said that during the time they lived in the world their manner of thought and speech and also of writing was of this nature, and that in such had lain their pursuit of wisdom.
Latin(1748-1756) 2593
2593. Loqui etiam datum est cum aliis, qui antiquis temporibus vixerunt et qui tunc inter sapientiores fuerunt; visi primum antrorsum ad distantiam ac ibi potuerant appercipere interiora cogitationum mearum, ita plura pleni ex una idea cogitationis potuerunt scire integram seriem, et illam delectabilibus sapientiae cum repraesentationibus amoenis implere; inde perceptum quo inter sapientiores essent, et dictum quod ab antiquis; ac ita propius accesserunt, cumque tunc praelegerem illis aliquid ex Verbo, summopere delectati sunt; ipsam delectationem et jucunditatem eorum percipere dabatur, quae maxime inde erat quod omnia et singula quae audiebant ex Verbo, caelestium et spiritualium repraesentativa et significativa essent; dicebant quod suo tempore cum in mundo vixerunt, modus eorum cogitandi et loquendi, tum quoque scribendi, talis fuerit, et quod hoc sapientiae eorum studium.