938、贪婪的人是所有人中最龌龊的，对死后的生活、灵魂和内在人，比谁都思想的少。他们甚至不知道天堂是什么，因为他们的思维水平是所有人中最低的，他们将其思维完全投入并沉浸于肉体和世俗事物。因此，当进入来世时，他们很长一段时间没有意识到自己成为灵人的事实，反以为仍完全在肉体中。他们的思维观念被贪婪拖到肉体和世俗的层面，变成可怕的幻觉。说来奇怪，却又是事实：在来世，龌龊的贪婪者觉得自己似乎在地窖中忙忙碌碌，这里存放着他们的金钱，他们在此备受老鼠侵扰。然而，尽管备受老鼠侵扰，他们仍不肯离开，直到筋疲力尽，最后从这些坟墓中爬出来。
New Century Edition
Cooper(2008,2013)
[NCE]938. The Hells (Continued): Misers' Hells, the Foul Jerusalem and Outlaws in the Wilderness, and the Feces-Laden Hells of Those Who Have Pursued Sensual Pleasure Alone
OF all people, misers are the vilest and think the least about life after death, the soul, and the inner being. They do not even know what heaven is. This is because of all people they do the least to elevate their thinking, which they completely saturate and drench with bodily and earthly preoccupations. The result is that when they enter the other world, for a long time they fail to realize that they are spirits, remaining firmly convinced instead that they are still in the body.
Their thoughts, dragged down to the bodily and earthly level by their greed, turn into dreadful hallucinations. Strange to say, but true, in the next life the grossly avaricious seem to themselves to live in cellars where their money is stored and where they are overrun with rats. Despite the rats, they do not leave until they grow unbearably tired of the situation, at which point they finally emerge from these tombs of theirs.
Potts(1905-1910) 938
938. CONTINUATION CONCERNING THE HELLS. HERE, CONCERNING THE HELLS OF THE AVARICIOUS, THE FILTHY JERUSALEM, AND THE ROBBERS IN A DESERT. ALSO CONCERNING THE EXCREMENTITIOUS HELLS OF THOSE WHO HAVE LIVED IN MERE PLEASURES. The avaricious are of all men the most sordid, and think the least about the life after death, the soul, and the internal man. They do not even know what heaven is, because of all men they least elevate their thoughts, but sink them and immerse them wholly in corporeal and earthly things. Wherefore when they come into the other life they do not know for a long time that they are spirits, but suppose that they are still altogether in the body. The ideas of their thought which from their avarice have become as it were corporeal and earthly, are turned into direful phantasies. It seems incredible, yet is true, that in the other life the sordidly avaricious seem to themselves to be busy in cellars where their money is, and to be infested there by mice; yet however they may be infested they do not withdraw until they are wearied out, and so at last they work their way out of these tombs.
Elliott(1983-1999) 938
938. THE HELLS - continued Here, the hells of the avaricious; then the filthy Jerusalem and the robbers in the desert. Also the utterly foul hells of people who have lived wholly engrossed in the pursuit of pleasures.
Avaricious people are the most disgusting of all, giving less thought than anybody else does to the life after death, to the soul, and to the internal man. They do not even know what heaven is, for the level of their thought is lower than everybody else's. Their thoughts they plunge and immerse completely in bodily and earthly interests. Consequently when they enter the next life they are for a long time unaware of the fact that they are spirits, but imagine that they are still entirely in the physical body. The ideas comprising their thought, which from their avarice have become so to speak bodily and earthly, are converted into direful delusions. And what is unbelievable but nevertheless true, the disgustingly avaricious in the next life seem to themselves to be working away in cells where their money is, and where they are infested by mice. But no matter how they may be infested they do not leave until they are tired out, and so at last roll out of those tombs.
Latin(1748-1756) 938
938. Continuatio de Infernis Hic de Infernis Avarorum; et de spurca Hierosolyma, et Latronibus in deserto: tum de Infernis excrementitiis eorum, qui in meris Voluptatibus vixeruntAvari omnium sordidissimi sunt, et omnium minime de vita post mortem, de anima et de interno homine cogitant; ne quidem sciunt quid caelum, quia omnium minime elevant suas cogitationes, sed eas prorsus infundunt et immergunt corporeis et terrestribus; quare cum in alteram vitam veniunt, diu non sciunt quod spiritus sint, sed putant se prorsus esse adhuc in corpore: ideae eorum cogitationis, quae ab avaritia factae quasi corporeae et terrestres, vertuntur in diras phantasias; et quod incredibile usque verum, sordide avari in altera vita videntur sibi in cellis versari, ubi eorum pecuniae, et ibi infestari a muribus; sed utcumque infestantur, non inde recedunt usque dum defatigantur, sic tandem se evolvunt iis sepulcris.