874、此处描述了试探之后该教会成员重生的第一个状态，这种状态在所有正在重生的人当中是很常见的，也就是说，他们以为他们从自己实行良善、思想真理，或说他们自己是他们所行的良善和所思的真理的源头。由于他们仍处在极大的模糊之中，所以主也让他们坚持这种观点。不过，只要他们坚持这种错误观点，他们所行的一切良善和所思的一切真理都不是信之良善和真理。事实上，凡人凭自己所行的，都不可能是善的，因为它来自他自己，也就是来自一个不纯和最不洁的源头。良善不可能从这种不纯和最不洁的源头发出，因为这个人总是思想自己的功德和公义；有些人甚至走得更远，与自己相比看不起其他人，如主在路加福音中（18:9-14）所教导的；其他人则以其它方式犯错。人的私欲就这样混杂，以至于外面看上去是好的，而里面却是污秽。因此，人在这种状态下所行的良善并非信之良善。这同样适用于他所思想的真理，因为尽管他所想的可能是完美的真理，但只要自我是它的源头，即便它本身是信之真理，他仍没有信之良善在自己里面。一切真理若要成为信之真理，都必须从主拥有信之良善在里面。只有这样，它们才能成为良善和真理。
New Century Edition
Cooper(2008,2013)
[NCE]874. This scene depicts the first stage of regeneration following trial for the people of this church, a stage common to everyone who is being reborn: we imagine that we are doing good deeds and thinking true thoughts under our own power. Because we still cannot see clearly at all, the Lord lets us think this way.
Still, none of the good we do and none of the truth we contemplate while holding this opinion (a mistaken one) is the kind of goodness or truth that makes a part of faith. Nothing that we produce from ourselves can be good, because it is from ourselves — an impure and very unclean source. From an impure and unclean source nothing good can spring, because we are always thinking about how deserving and righteous we are. Some people, as the Lord teaches in Luke 18:9-14, go further and despise others in comparison with themselves. Others do other things just as bad. Self-centered desires add themselves to the mixture, making the exterior look good, although the interior is filthy.
As a consequence, the good that we do at this stage is not the good that belongs to faith. It is the same with the truth that we think. Even if the idea we adopt is absolutely true and is in itself a valid religious concept, nonetheless as long as we adopt it for selfish reasons, it has no religious good within it. Any truth, in order to be theologically true, has to have the good of faith from the Lord within it. That is when it first becomes good and true.
Potts(1905-1910) 874
874. Here is described the first state of the regeneration of the man of this church after temptation, which state is common to all who are being regenerated, namely, that they suppose they do what is good and think what is true from themselves; and because they are as yet in great obscurity, the Lord also leaves them so to imagine. But still all the good they do and all the truth they think while in such imagination, is not the good and truth of faith. For whatever man produces of himself cannot be good, because it is from himself, that is, from a fountain which is impure and most unclean. From this impure and unclean fountain no good can ever go forth, for the man is always thinking of his own merit and righteousness; and some go so far as to despise others in comparison with themselves (as the Lord teaches in Luke 18:9-14), and others err in other ways. Man's own cupidities intermingle themselves, so that while it appears outwardly to be good, it is inwardly filthy. For this reason the good which man does in this state is not the good of faith, and the case is the same with the truth that he thinks, for although that which he thinks may be very true, yet so long as it is from what is his own it is indeed in itself the truth of faith, but the good of faith is not in it; and all truth, in order to be the truth of faith, must have in it from the Lord the good of faith. Then for the first time there are good and truth.
Elliott(1983-1999) 874
874. This describes the first state following temptation in the regeneration of the member of this Church, a state common to all who are being regenerated. It is a state when people imagine that they themselves are the source of the good they do and of the truth they think. And because they are still in the greatest obscurity, the Lord lets them cling to that opinion. But as long as they cling to that opinion which is false, no good deed they do nor any truth they think is the good or truth of faith. For whatever a person carries out from himself cannot be good since it has come from self, an impure and most unclean origin. From that impure and most unclean origin no good can possibly emerge, for the individual is thinking all the time about his own merit and righteousness. Some go even further, and look down on everybody else, as the Lord teaches in Luke 18:9-14. And others' attitudes are different again. People's selfish desires intermingle in such a way that the outside may look good while the inside is filthy. The good therefore that a person does in this state is not the good of faith. And the same applies to the truth he thinks. What he thinks may be the perfect truth; but as long as the proprium is the source of it, though it is in itself the truth of faith, he does not have the good of faith within him. To be the truth of faith all truth must include from the Lord the good of faith. Only then do they become good and truth.
Latin(1748-1756) 874
874. Hic describitur primus status regenerationis hominis hujus Ecclesiae post tentationem, qui communis est omnibus qui regenerantur; nempe, quod putent ex semet bonum facere et verum cogitare, et quia adhuc in obscurissimo sunt, etiam Dominus relinquit iis ita opinari: sed usque omne bonum quod faciunt et omne verum quod cogitant, cum in tali opinione sunt, quae falsa non est bonum et verum fidei; nam quicquid homo ex semet producit, non potest esse bonum quia a semet, qui est fons impurus et immundissimus; a fonte impuro et immundissimo nusquam potest bonum exire, cogitat enim semper de merito et justitia sui; quidam adhuc plus, contemnunt prae se alios, sicut Dominus docet Luc. xviii 9-14; alii aliter; propriae cupiditates se admiscent ita ut appareat extus sicut bonum et usque intus est spurcum; quare bonum quod in hoc statu facit homo, non est bonum fidei. Similiter se habet cum vero quod cogitat, tametsi verissimum foret quod cogitat, usque quamdiu ex proprio, est in se quidem verum fidei, sed ei bonum fidei non in est; omne verum ut sit verum fidei, ei bonum fidei a Domino inesse debet, tunc primum fit bonum et verum.