536、前面大量论述了存在于大洪水之前的教会所拥有的感知力，如今感知却成了完全不为人知的东西。对它的这种无知如此之大，以至于人们以为它是一种持续的启示，或人里面与生俱来的东西。有的以为它纯粹是幻想，有的则以为它是其它某种东西。但无论他们怎么想，事实都是，感知是主赋予那些拥有爱之信的人的属天品性本身；具有无穷变化的感知遍及整个天堂。因此，为使人们能对感知拥有某种概念，蒙主的神性怜悯，我稍后会描述存在于天堂中的各种感知的性质。
New Century Edition
Cooper(2008,2013)
[NCE]536. The perceptive ability of the churches that came before the Flood is discussed many times above,{*1} but in modern days perception is a wholly unknown thing. The ignorance about it is so great that people are capable of believing it to be a kind of ongoing revelation, or else something instinctive. Some suppose that it is no more than make-believe, while others have other ideas. Yet perception is the epitome of the heavenly character that the Lord gives to those who have a loving belief in him. Perception exists throughout heaven in untold variety, so with the Lord's divine mercy, let me describe below [1383-1400] the general kinds as they exist in the heavens.
Footnotes:
{*1} For passages discussing the perceptive ability of the churches that came before the Flood, see 104, 125, 126, 202, 225, 371, 483, 495, 502, 503, 521. [JSR]
Potts(1905-1910) 536
536. As in the foregoing pages much has been said about the perception possessed by the churches that existed before the flood, and as at this day perception is a thing utterly unknown, so much so that some may imagine it to be a kind of continuous revelation, or to be something implanted in men; others that it is merely imaginary, and others other things; and as perception is the very Celestial itself given by the Lord to those who are in the faith of love, and as there is perception in the universal heaven of endless variety: therefore in order that there may be among men some conception of what perception is, of the Lord's Divine mercy I may in the following pages describe the principal kinds of perception that exist in the Heavens.
Elliott(1983-1999) 536
536. Frequent reference has been made in previous paragraphs to perception as it existed in the Churches prior to the Flood, and how nowadays perception is something altogether unknown, so unknown that some may imagine it to be a type of continuous revelation, or to be something innate in people. Others may imagine that it is purely a figment of the imagination, and others something different again. But whatever they may think, perception is in fact the celestial itself which the Lord imparts to those who possess faith that inheres in love, and throughout the whole of heaven perception exists in forms endlessly varying. All of this being so, to enable people to have some idea of what perception is, in the Lord's Divine mercy let the nature of the various kinds of perception as they exist in heaven be described later on.
Latin(1748-1756) 536
536. Quia pluries in praecedentibus dictum est de perceptione Ecclesiarum quae ante diluvium, et hodie prorsus ignota res est perceptio, et usque ita ignota ut putare possint esse revelatum quoddam continuum, vel esse insitum quoddam; alii quod sit mere imaginarium quid, alii aliter; et usque perceptio est ipsum caeleste a Domino donatum illis qui in fide amoris sunt, et in universo caelo est perceptio cum innumerabili varietate; quapropter, ut notio perceptionis habeatur, ex Divina Domini Misericordia, in sequentibus licet describere perceptionem quoad sua genera qualis est in caelis.