736、至于挪亚，或这个新教会的成员，他的特点是，他简单地相信他从上古教会所拥有的事物，也就是教义的条文。这些条文被那些名为以诺的人搜集起来，并转变成一种教义形式（519-521节）。然而，挪亚所表示的人们的性质，完全不同于那些被称为拿非利人、在大洪水之前灭亡之人的。因为后者将信之教义浸没于自己污秽的欲望，由此孕育可怕的说服。他们不愿从这些可怕的说服中退出，无论别人怎样教导他们，并向他们说明这些说服是虚假。如今，这两种天赋或性质仍存在于人们当中。前者很容易重生，而后者却很难。
New Century Edition
Cooper(2008,2013)
[NCE]736. To describe Noah, or in other words, the people of this new church, they were the kind who had an uncomplicated belief in the things they had received from the earliest church. These were the doctrinal tenets that the people called Enoch had collected and organized into a kind of systematic theology [519-521].
Their character was entirely different from that of the pre-Flood people who died in the Flood and who were called Nephilim.{*1} These were the people who had merged the teachings of faith with their foul desires and so had seized on horrendous delusions that they would not back away from, no matter how hard others tried to teach them and to show them the falsity of their notions.
People with the same two types of mentality or personality exist today too. The former can regenerate easily, the latter only with difficulty.
Footnotes:
{*1} On the "Nephilim," see 581-583 and note 1 in 554. [LHC]
Potts(1905-1910) 736
736. As regards "Noah" or the man of this new church, he was of such character that he believed in simplicity what he had from the Most Ancient Church, which were matters of doctrine, collected and reduced to some doctrinal form by those who were called "Enoch." And he was of an entirely different genius from the antediluvians who perished, called "Nephilim" who immersed the doctrinal things of faith in their foul cupidities, and thereby conceived direful persuasions, from which they would not recede, however much instructed by others and shown the falsity of those persuasions. There are at this day also men of the one genius, or nature, and men of the other. Those of the one may easily be regenerated, but those of the other with difficulty.
Elliott(1983-1999) 736
736. As for Noah, or the member of this new Church, he was such that he believed with simplicity those things which he had come to possess from the Most Ancient Church. These were items of doctrine that had been gathered together and converted into a kind of doctrinal form by those called Enoch. The disposition of the people meant by Noah however was entirely different from those before the Flood who perished, called the Nephilim. For they immersed doctrinal matters concerning faith in their own filthy desires and in this way strove after dreadful persuasions from which they were unwilling to draw back even though they were taught by others and were shown that these were falsities. This dual genius or disposition also exists among people today. The former can be regenerated easily, but the latter with difficulty.
Latin(1748-1756) 736
736. Quod Noahum, seu hominem novae hujus Ecclesiae, concernit, is fuit talis quod simpliciter crediderit illis quae habuit ex Antiquissima Ecclesia, quae fuerunt doctrinalia collecta et redacta in quandam doctrinae formam ab illis (x)qui Hanochus dicti sunt: et prorsus diversae indolis fuit ab antediluvianis qui perierunt, et Nephilim dicti, qui doctrinalia fidei immerserunt foedis suis cupiditatibus, et sic captarunt diras persuasiones, a quibus recedere non vellent, utcumque ab aliis instruerentur et iis demonstraretur quod falsa: homines duplicis hujus genii seu indolis hodie quoque dantur; sed illi facile possunt regenerari, hi autem difficile.