BE104.如果有人拥护新教会的信仰却又保留旧教会关于主之功与义的归算这一教条，那么也会发生同样的事情，因为从这一教条会发散出前教会的所有教条，就像从一个根发出好多嫩芽。倘若发生此事，就好比一个人好不容易从那条龙的三个头解脱出来，又纠缠于剩下的四个头中；或者好像一个人刚逃离猎豹，又遭遇狮子；或者就像一个人刚脱离无水之坑，又掉进满水之坑中淹死了。关于这种情形，在下一个主题解释过后就可以看到更多内容，那里会对归算作进一步说明。
104. The same would happen if anyone embraced the faith of the New Church and retained the faith of the old Church concerning the imputation of the Lord's righteousness and merit for from this, as from a root, have sprung all the dogmas of the former Church, like so many young shoots. If this were to happen, it would be comparatively as if one should extricate himself from three heads of the dragon and become entangled in its four remaining ones; or as if one should fly from a leopard and meet with a lion; or as if one should come out of a pit where there is no water and fall into a pit full of water and be drowned. That this is so will be seen after the exposition of the following article where something will be advanced concerning imputation.
104. The like would happen if anyone should embrace the faith of the New Church, and retain the faith of the old church concerning the imputation of the justice or merit of the Lord; for from this, as from their root, all its dogmas, like so many offshoots, have sprung forth. If this should be the case, it would comparatively be like anyone extricating himself from three heads of the dragon, and becoming entangled in his four remaining ones; or like one who fled from a leopard, and met a lion; or like one escaping out of a pit where there is no water, and falling into a pit full of water, and being drowned. That this is the case, will be seen after the exposition of the following proposition, where something will be advanced concerning imputation.
104. Simile eveniret, si quis amplecteretur Fidem Novae Ecclesiae, ac Fidem veteris Ecclesiae de Imputatione justitiae seu meriti Domini retineret; et hac enim ut Radice omnia ejus dogmata, ut propagines exsurrexerunt. Si hoc fieret, comparative foret, sicut quis se eriperet ex tribus capitibus Draconis, ac intricaretur quatuor reliquis ejus; aut sicut quis fugeret pardum et incideret in leonem; aut sicut exiens e fovea ubi non aqua, caderet in foveam ubi aqua qua submergeretur. Quod ita sit, videbitur post sequentis Lemmatis expositionem, ubi aliquid de Imputatione proferetur.