48、由此明显可知，当一个人出于属于理解力的信说话，并在这个过程中确认或强化真理和良善时，他就来到了重生的第五个阶段。这时，他所产生的东西有生命在里头，被称为海中的鱼和空中的鸟。由此也明显可知，当出于属于理解力的信，因而出于属于意愿的爱言说真理，实行良善时，他就来到第六个阶段。这时，他所产生的东西被称为活物和牲畜。此时，他因开始同时出于信和爱行动，故变成一个属灵人，属灵人被称为一个形像；这是接下来论述的主题。
New Century Edition
Cooper(2008,2013)
[NCE]48. All this verifies the premise: In the fifth stage we speak with conviction (an attribute of the intellect) and in the process strengthen ourselves in truth and goodness. The things we then produce have life in them and are called the fish of the sea and the birds in the heavens. And in the sixth stage we act with conviction (an attribute of the intellect) and therefore with love (an attribute of the will) in speaking truth and doing good. What we then produce is called a living soul, an animal. Because this is the point at which we begin to act as much with love as with conviction, we become spiritual people, who are called [God's] image — the very next subject.
Potts(1905-1910) 48
48. Hence then it appears that man is in the fifth state of regeneration when he speaks from a principle of faith, which belongs to the understanding, and thereby confirms himself in the true and in the good. The things then brought forth by him are animate, and are called the "fishes of the sea" and the "fowl of the heavens." He is in the sixth state, when from faith, which is of the understanding, and from love thence derived, which is of the will, he speaks truths, and does goods; what he then brings forth being called the "living soul" and the "beast." And as he then begins to act from love, as well as from faith, he becomes a spiritual man, who is called an "image of God" which is the subject now treated of.
Elliott(1983-1999) 48
48. From these considerations it is now clear that the fifth state is one in which a person speaks from faith which is part of the understanding and in so doing confirms himself in truth and good; and that what he produces at that point are the animate things called 'the fish of the sea and the birds of the air.a It is also clear that the sixth state exists when he utters truths and performs good deeds from faith which is part of the understanding and so from love which is part of the will. What he produces at that point is called a living creature and a beast. And because at that point he begins to act both from faith and from love simultaneously, he becomes a spiritual man, who is called an image; and this is dealt with next.
Latin(1748-1756) 48
48. Ex his nunc constat quod quintus status sit, quod homo ex fide quae est intellectus, loquatur, seque inde confirmet in vero et bono, et quae tunc producit, sint animata, quae vocantur 'pisces maris et aves caelorum.' Et quod sextus status sit, cum ex fide quae est intellectus, et inde ex amore qui est voluntatis, vera loquatur et bono faciat; quae tunc producit, vocantur 'anima vivens et bestia.' Et quia tunc incipit simul ac ex fide, etiam ex amore agere, fit homo spiritualis qui vocatur 'imago,' de qua nunc.