41、凡属于人的，都没有生命在里面；当显为可见时，看上去坚硬如骨状的黑色物质。而另一方面，凡来自主的，都拥有生命，包含属灵和属天之物在里面，当显为可见时，看上去是人，是活的。天使灵的每一句话、每一个观念和每一个最小想法，都是活的，在它的最细微之处都包含从作为生命本身的主发出的一种情感，这一点似乎令人难以置信，却是最真实不过的。因此，凡来自主的事物都拥有生命在自己里面，因为它们包含对主的信，在此由“活的灵魂”来表示。另外，它们还具有一种身体，在此由能行动或爬行之物来表示。然而，这些真理对人来说仍是深奥的秘密，现在只是提一下，因为这一节论述的是能行动的活的灵魂。
New Century Edition
Cooper(2008,2013)
[NCE]41. Nothing that is a person's very own has any life in it. When presented to view, it looks hard as bone, and black. Everything that comes from the Lord, on the other hand, has life. It has a spiritual and heavenly quality and looks like something living and human.{*1} Incredibly, perhaps (although it is absolutely true), each word, each mental image, and each scintilla of thought in an angelic spirit is alive. Passion received from the Lord, who is life itself, permeates every single thing about such a spirit.
Things that come from the Lord, then, contain life because they contain faith in him, and they are symbolized here by a living soul. Additionally, they have the equivalent of a physical body, symbolized by that which moves or creeps. This information remains obscure to the human mind, but since the verse talks about a living soul that moves, I need at least to mention it.
Footnotes:
{*1} Abstract qualities, according to Swedenborg, become visible as objects in the next life. See Heaven and Hell 173-176, where by way of illustration he mentions the appearance of beautiful tree groves and gardens in the vicinity of angels who are especially intelligent. See also 6200 of the present work, which describes a wavelike manifestation of thought. For related phenomena, see notes 1 in 18, 1 in 154. [LHC]
Potts(1905-1910) 41
41. Whatever is proper to man has no life in itself, and whenever it is made manifest to the sight it appears hard, like a bony and black substance; but whatever is from the Lord has life, containing within it that which is spiritual and celestial, which when presented to view appears human and living. It may seem incredible but is nevertheless most true, that every single expression, every single idea, and every least of thought in an angelic spirit, is alive, containing in its minutest particulars an affection that proceeds from the Lord, who is life itself. And therefore whatsoever things are from the Lord, have life in them, because they contain faith toward Him, and are here signified by the "living soul:" they have also a species of body, here signified by "what moves itself" or "creeps." These truths, however, are as yet deep secrets to man, and are now mentioned only because the "living soul" and the "thing moving itself" are treated of.
Elliott(1983-1999) 41
41. Anything that is man's own has no life in it; and when depicted visually it looks like something hard as a bone and black. But anything that comes from the Lord does contain life. It has that which is spiritual and celestial within it, and when depicted visually it looks human and alive. It is perhaps incredible, but nevertheless absolutely true, that every expression, every idea, and every least thought of an angelic spirit is alive. In even the most detailed areas of his thought there is an affection that comes from the Lord, who is life itself. Consequently all that derives from the Lord has life within it, for it contains faith in Him, and is here meant by 'a living creature'. It then has the outward appearance of a body, meant here by that which is moving, or creeping. To man these matters remain arcana, but since the subject here is the living and moving creature, they ought at least to be mentioned here.
Latin(1748-1756) 41
41. Quicquid proprium est hominis, hoc nullam in se vitam habet, dumque sistitur videndum, apparet durum sicut osseum et nigrum; at quicquid a Domino, vitam habet, est in illo spirituale et caeleste, et dum sistitur videndum, apparet ut humanum vivum: et quod incredibile forte sed usque verissimum, quod unaquaevis vox, unaquaevis idea, et unumquodvis minimum cogitationis spiritus angelica, vivat; in singularissimis ejus est affectio procedens a Domino, Qui est ipsa vita: quare quae a Domino, habent vitam in se, quia fidem in Ipsum, et significantur hic per 'animam viventem'; tum habent speciem corporis hic significatam per 'se movens' seu 'reptans': at haec adhuc homini arcana sunt, sed quia agitur hic de anima vivente et se movente, hic solum memoranda.