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属天的奥秘 第68节

(一滴水译,2018-2023)

68、我很清楚,许多人会说,只要活在肉身,没有人能与灵人和天使交谈;也有许多人会说,我正在产生幻觉,或我讲述这些事是为了获得人们的信任,以及其它揣测。但这一切不会使我退缩,因为我已经看见了,听见了并感觉到了。

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New Century Edition
Cooper(2008,2013)

[NCE]68. I realize many will claim that no one can talk to spirits and angels as long as bodily life continues, or that I am hallucinating, or that I have circulated such stories in order to play on people's credulity, and so on. But none of this worries me; I have seen, I have heard, I have felt.{*1}
Footnotes:
{*1} Swedenborg lived in an age that was increasingly enamored of empirical observation and inductive reasoning from it. Thus he often (as here) backs up his claim to have experience of the spiritual world by asserting that it rests on the evidence of the senses — in this case the internal senses, which were opened up in him as a result of divine mercy, as he says in 67 above. Swedenborg often emphasizes that sensory perception is a comparatively low form of cognition compared to the internal senses; see 102-104, 127. [GFD, SS, RS]

Potts(1905-1910) 68

68. I am well aware that many will say that no one can possibly speak with spirits and angels so long as he lives in the body; and many will say that it is all fancy, others that I relate such things in order to gain credence, and others will make other objections. But by all this I am not deterred, for I have seen, I have heard, I have felt.

Elliott(1983-1999) 68

68. I am well aware of the fact that many people will say that nobody can possibly speak to spirits or angels as long as he is living in the body, and that many will call it delusion. Some will say that I have spread these ideas around so as to win people's trust, while others will say something different again. But none of this deters me; for I have seen, I have heard, I have felt.

Latin(1748-1756) 68

68. Non me latet quod plures dicturi, quod nusquam aliquis loqui possit cum spiritibus et angelis quamdiu in corpore vivit; et plures, quod phantasia sit; alii, quod talia tradidero ut fidem captem; alii aliter; sed haec nihil moror, nam vidi, audivi, sensi.


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