456、他们当中最精通的人声称，天堂的喜乐只在于赞美和称颂主，而不在于行出仁之良善，并声称这才是一种积极的生活。但我告诉他们，赞美和称颂主并不构成这种积极生活，而是这种生活的自然结果，因为主不需要任何赞美，而是希望我们去行出仁之良善，我们正是根据这些行为从主获得幸福。然而，这些最精通的人仍无法在实行这些仁之良善中形成任何喜乐的概念，只有奴役的概念。但天使证实，这种生活才是最自由的，并与无法形容的幸福快乐连在一起。
New Century Edition
Cooper(2008,2013)
[NCE]456. Some very well informed people claimed that heavenly joy lay in a life spent not in carrying out the good deeds prompted by charity but only in praising and celebrating the Lord. This life they called an active one. But I said that praising and celebrating the Lord is not an active life of the kind meant but a mere side effect of that life. The Lord has no need of praise but wants us to do the good things that charity calls on us to do. That is the activity that determines how happy the Lord can make us.
Those people, smart as they were, still could not find any promise of joy in the good deeds of charity, only the prospect of servitude. But to do such deeds is actually freeing and brings with it indescribable happiness, as the angels testified.
Potts(1905-1910) 456
456. The best instructed of them all said that heavenly joy consists solely in praising and glorifying the Lord, being a life destitute of any doing of the goods of charity, and that this is an active life. But they were told that praising and celebrating the Lord is not such an active life as is meant, but is an effect of that life; for the Lord has no need of praises, but wills that they should do the goods of charity, and that it is according to these that they will receive happiness from the Lord. But still these best instructed persons could form no idea of joy, but of servitude, in doing these goods of charity. But the angels testified that such a life is the freest of all, and that it is conjoined with happiness unutterable.
Elliott(1983-1999) 456
456. Those who were the most well-versed have said that heavenly joy consisted in simply praising and blessing the Lord without performing good deeds of charity, and that this was an active life. They were told however that praising and blessing the Lord did not constitute such an active life, but was the outgrowth of that life, for the Lord has no need of any praises. They were also told that He wishes men to perform the good deeds of charity, and that in accordance with these they receive happiness from the Lord. But these very well-versed people were still unable to grasp any idea of joy, only of slavery, in the good deeds of charity. The angels testified however that such a life is absolute freedom, and that it is joined to indescribable happiness.
Latin(1748-1756) 456
456. Qui instructissimi fuerunt, gaudium caeleste consistere dixerunt in vita absque praestandis bonis charitatis, solum ut laudent et celebrent Dominum, et quod ea esset vita activa; sed dictum quod laudare et celebrare Dominum, non sit talis vita activa sed effectus illius vitae, nam laudibus non opus habet Dominus sed vult ut praestent bona charitatis; secundum illa accipiunt a Domino felicitatem. At instructissimi ii non usque potuerant habere in bonis illis charitatis aliquam ideam gaudii sed servitutis, veram quod liberrimum sit, et cum ineffabili felicitate conjunctum, testati sunt angeli.