310、本节经文的每个字都蕴含着如此众多的最深奥秘，以至于把它们阐明是不可能的。这些奥秘涉及那些在大洪水中灭亡之人的性情，他们的性情完全不同于生活在大洪水之后的人的性情。简言之，他们的第一代祖先，就是构成上古教会的人，是属天人，故拥有被植入他们的属天之种；因此，他们的后裔拥有来自一个属天源头的种子在自己里面。这种子因其属天的源头而具有这种性质，爱主宰整个心智，使它成为一体。因为人的心智由两部分构成，即意愿和理解力。爱或良善属于意愿，信或真理属于理解力。上古之人从爱或良善感知属于信或真理之物，所以他们的心智是一体。拥有一个属天源头的种子有必要留在这个种族的后裔当中；对这些后裔来说，背离真理与良善是极其危险的，因为他们的整个心智会变得如此败坏，以致它在来世几乎不可能恢复。
而那些没有属天之种，只有属灵之种在里面的人，如大洪水之后的人，以及现在的人则不然。他们没有爱，因而没有对良善的意愿在里面，只能被赋予信或对真理的理解。他们能通过信或对真理的理解被引入某种程度的仁爱，但却经由不同的途径，即经由被主植入并通过关于真理的知识或认知和由此产生的良善所获得的良心被引入。因此，他们的状态完全不同于大洪水之前的人的状态。关于这种状态，蒙主的神性怜悯，容后再述。这些就是现代人完全不知道的奥秘，因为现代人不知道什么叫属天人，甚至不知道什么叫属灵人，更不知道人的心智和生命的性质，以及随之而来的死后状态。
New Century Edition
Cooper(2008,2013)
[NCE]310. Each word of this verse [Genesis 3:24] holds such deep secrets that they could never be uncovered. They relate to the inborn character of the people who were destroyed in the Flood, a character completely different from that of the people living after the Flood.
Let me say just a little about it. The most distant ancestors of this generation, who formed the earliest church, had a heavenly character and so were sown with heavenly seed. Their descendants consequently had in them seed from a heavenly source. Because of its heavenly source, the nature of this seed is to cause love to reign throughout the whole mind and unify it.
The human mind has two parts: will and intellect. The will holds love or goodness, the intellect holds faith or truth. From love (goodness) the people of that time perceived what belonged to faith (to truth), so that their minds were unified. The offspring of such people keep the same seed inside them, which is perilous if they turn away from truth and goodness, because they then corrupt their whole mind to such an extent that it can hardly be restored in the other life.
[2] The situation is different for people who do not have heavenly but instead spiritual seed inside them — those living after the Flood, for example, and those who live in modern times. Such people have no love and therefore no will to do good. Faith is still possible, though; in other words, they are able to comprehend truth. Faith or an understanding of truth can lead them to a kind of charity, although they arrive at it by another way. Their way lies through conscience, which is instilled in them by the Lord and is formed out of a knowledge of truth and of the good that results from it. So their circumstances are radically different from those of the people who predated the Flood. Those circumstances will be described later [398], the Lord in his divine mercy willing.
These are secrets wholly unknown to people today. No one today has any idea what a heavenly person is or even what a spiritual one is, let alone what the implications are for the nature of the human mind and mortal life or for the resulting conditions after death.
Potts(1905-1910) 310
310. Each particular expression in this verse involves so many arcana of deepest import (applicable to the genius of this people who perished by the flood, a genius totally different from that of those who lived subsequent to the flood), that it is impossible to set them forth. We will briefly observe that their first parents, who constituted the Most Ancient Church, were celestial men, and consequently had celestial seeds implanted in them; whence their descendants had seed in them from a celestial origin. Seed from a celestial origin is such that love rules the whole mind and makes it a one. For the human mind consists of two parts, the will and the understanding. Love or good belongs to the will, faith or truth to the understanding; and from love or good those most ancient people perceived what belongs to faith or truth, so that their mind was a one. With the posterity of such a race, seed of the same celestial origin necessarily remains, so that any falling away from truth and good on their part is most perilous, since their whole mind becomes so perverted as to render a restoration in the other life scarcely possible. It is otherwise with those who do not possess celestial but only spiritual seed, as did the people after the flood, and as also do the people of the present day. There is no love in these, consequently no will of good, but still there is a capability of faith, or understanding of truth, by means of which they can be brought to some degree of charity, although by a different way, namely, by the insinuation of conscience from the Lord grounded in the knowledges of truth and the derivative good. Their state is therefore quite different from that of the antediluvians, concerning which state, of the Lord's Divine mercy hereafter. These are arcana with which the present generation are utterly unacquainted, for at the present day none know what the celestial man is nor even what the spiritual man is, and still less what is the quality of the human mind and life thence resulting, and the consequent state after death.
Elliott(1983-1999) 310
310. Each word in this verse embodies so many very deep arcana that all cannot possibly be disclosed. These arcana are applicable to the disposition of those people who perished in the Flood, a disposition which was entirely different from that of the people who lived after the Flood. In short, their earliest forefathers, who constituted the Most Ancient Church, were celestial people, and so had celestial seed planted within them. Consequently their descendants had seed within themselves which had a celestial origin. Seed which has a celestial origin entails love ruling the whole mind and unifying it. For the human mind consists of two parts, will and understanding. To the will belongs love, or good, and to the understanding faith, or truth. From love or good they perceived what was a matter of faith or a matter of truth, so that their mind was one. When people are of this nature that seed which has a celestial origin remains with their descendants. But if the latter recede from truth and good, it is extremely dangerous, for they so corrupt the whole of their mind that it can scarcely be restored in the next life.
[2] It is different with people who do not have celestial but spiritual seed within them, as was the case with the people after the Flood and with those living today. They have no love within them, and so no will for good; but they can be given faith, or understanding of truth. From faith or an understanding of truth they can be guided into some form of charity, but it is by a different route, by a conscience implanted by the Lord and acquired from cognitions of truth and good arising from it. Consequently their state is entirely different from that of people before the Flood. This state will in the Lord's Divine mercy be described later on. These are the arcana which are totally unknown to people nowadays, for nowadays people do not know what the celestial man is, nor even what the spiritual man is, let alone the consequent nature of man's mind and life, and his consequent state after death.
Latin(1748-1756) 310
310. Singula verba hujus versus arcanissima tanta involvunt ut nusquam exponi possint, applicabilia ad genium populi hujus qui diluvio periit, qui genius prorsus diversus fuit a genio eorum qui post diluvium vixerunt: ut paucis modo dicatur, primi eorum parentes qui Antiquissimam Ecclesiam constituerunt, caelestes fuerunt, ita illis semina caelestia inseminata fuerunt; inde posteri eorum semen ex caelesti origine apud se habuerunt; semen ex caelesti origine tale est quod amor regat totam mentem, et unam facit. Mens enim humana ex binis partibus constat, ex voluntate et intellectu; voluntatis est amor seu bonum, intellectus est fides, seu verum; ex amore seu bono, percipiebant quid fidei aut quid veri, ita una mens erat; cum tales sunt, apud posteros manet semen inde, qui si declinant a vero et bono periculosissimum est, sic enim totam suam mentem pervertunt ut in altera vita vix possit restitui. Aliter, quibus non semen caeleste sed semen spirituale inest, sicut postdiluvianis et iis qui hodie vivunt, iis nullus est amor, ita nulla voluntas boni, sed usque dari potest fides, seu intellectus veri; ex fide, seu intellectu veri, perduci possunt ad charitatem quandam, sed per aliam viam et quidem per insinuatam a Domino conscientiam ex cognitionibus veri et boni inde; quare est status eorum prorsus alius quam fuit status antediluvianorum; de quo statu, ex Divina Domini Misericordia, in sequentibus dicetur. Haec sunt arcana, quae homini hodie prorsus ignota sunt; nam hodie non sciunt quid caelestis homo, ne quidem quid spiritualis, minus qualis inde mens et vita hominis, et inde status post mortem.