633、情况是这样：没有人拥有对真理的任何理解和对良善的任何意愿，甚至包括上古教会的人。但当人们变得属天时，他们看似拥有对良善的意愿和对真理的理解。而事实上，这一切唯独属于主；他们如天使那样，也知道、承认并觉察到这一事实。这是千真万确的，以至于凡不知道、承认并觉察到这一事实的人，既没有对真理的理解，也没有对任何良善的意愿。对每个人、每位天使，甚至最为属天的天使来说，他的自我无非是虚假和邪恶，因为众所周知，在主眼里，天也不洁净（约伯记15:15），一切良善和一切真理唯独属于主。不过，任何人或天使能被完善到何等程度，就蒙主的神性怜悯而被完善，可以说接受对真理的理解和对良善的意愿到何等程度；但他拥有这些只是表象。每个人都能照着他在生活中实际所行的，以一种适合从父母植入他的遗传之恶的方式而被完善，从而能接受主怜悯的这种恩赐。
New Century Edition
Cooper(2008,2013)
[NCE]633. The fact of the matter is that no one has any understanding of truth or will to do good. Not even the people of the earliest church had them. When people develop a heavenly nature, they seem to have a will to do good and an understanding of truth, but the capability is all the Lord's, as they themselves see, acknowledge, and perceive. The same holds true for angels. So entirely is this the case that anyone who fails to see, acknowledge, and perceive the truth of it utterly lacks any comprehension of truth or will to do good.
The independent self of every human being and every angel — even the most heavenly — is mere falsity and evil. As people know, the heavens are not pure in the Lord's sight [Job 15:15], and all good and all truth belong to him alone.
If a person or an angel can be perfected, then by the Lord's divine mercy that individual is perfected and receives what seems to be an understanding of truth and a will to do good. But what she or he has is only an apparent possession.
All people can be perfected and so receive this gift of the Lord's mercy. The way they have lived their lives, in view of the evil they have inherited from their parents, determines the shape in which mercy comes to them.
Potts(1905-1910) 633
633. The case is this: With no man is there any understanding of truth and will of good, not even with those who were of the Most Ancient Church. But when men become celestial it appears as if they had a will of good and understanding of truth, and yet this is of the Lord alone, as they also know, acknowledge, and perceive. So is it with the angels also. So true is this that whoever does not know, acknowledge, and perceive that it is so, has no understanding of truth or will of good whatever. With every man, and with every angel, even the most celestial, that which is his own is nothing but falsity and evil; for it is known that the heavens are not clean before the Lord [Job 15:15], and that all good and all truth are of the Lord alone. But so far as a man or an angel is capable of being perfected, so far of the Lord's Divine mercy he is perfected, and receives as it were an understanding of truth and a will of good; but his having these is only an appearance. Every man can be perfected-and consequently receive this gift of the Lord's mercy-in accordance with the actual doings of his life, and in a manner suited to the hereditary evil implanted by his parents.
Elliott(1983-1999) 633
633. The situation is this: No understanding of truth or will for good resides with anyone, not even with those who belonged to the Most Ancient Church. When people become celestial however, they do seem to have a will for good and an understanding of truth residing with them.
But in reality it is the Lord's alone, a fact they also know, acknowledge, and perceive, as is the case also with angels. This is so true that a person who does not know, acknowledge, and perceive it has no understanding of truth and will for good whatever. With every man, and with every angel, even the most celestial, his proprium is nothing but falsity and evil, for it is well known that in the Lord's eyes even the heavens are not pure,a and that all good and all truth are the Lord's alone. But to the extent that any man or angel is capable of being perfected, he is in the Lord's Divine mercy perfected, and receives so to speak an understanding of truth and a will for good. His own possession of them however is only the appearance. Everybody is capable of being perfected, and consequently of receiving this gift of the Lord's mercy, in so far as the deeds he actually performs in life will allow, and in a manner consistent with the hereditary evil implanted within him from parents.Latin(1748-1756) 633
633. Res se ita habet quod apud nullum hominem sit aliquis intellectus veri ac voluntas boni, ne quidem apud illos qui fuerunt ex Antiquissima Ecclesia; sed cum caelestes fiunt, apparet sicut voluntas boni et intellectus veri esset apud eos, sed est solius Domini, quod etiam sciunt, agnoscunt et percipiunt; sicut etiam apud angelos; usque adeo ut qui non scit, agnoscit et percipit quod ita sit, nihil prorsus intellectus veri et voluntatis boni habeat. Apud hominem quemcumque, et apud angelum quemcumque, etiamsi caelestissimum, proprium ejus non est nisi falsum et malum; nam notum est quod caeli non sint puri coram Domino; et quod omne bonum et omne verum sit solius Domini; sed sicut homo et angelus potest perfici, ita, ex Divina Domini Misericordia, perficitur, et recipit sicut intellectam veri et voluntatem boni, sed quod habeat, est solum apparentia: perfici potest unusquisque homo, et consequenter recipere donum hoc misericordiae Domini, secundum cujusvis vitae actualitates {x}convenienter ejus implantato a parentibus malo hereditario.