5、我暂且不谈那些不知道人死后仍和以前一样为人的人对于宇宙毁灭所持的荒谬观念。这些观念都是一个性质，并且为数众多。一旦知道一个人死后不是一口气或一阵风，而是一个灵，他若过着良善的生活，就是天上的一位天使，而灵人与天使都拥有完整的人形，就能基于理解，而非基于不经理解就接受的信仰，就是只引向无聊的传统信念的信仰来思想人死后的状态和最后的审判。理解还会带来确切地结论，即：圣言中所预言的最后审判不会发生在世界，而是发生在灵界，就是所有人的聚集之地。还可推知，当最后的审判发生时，为保持圣言的可信度，这一事实必被揭示出来。
5. Allow me to skip over the absurd notions we would have concerning the destruction of the universe if we did not know that we are just as human after death as before. These notions are all of the same nature, and there are a lot of them.
Once we know that we are not breaths or breezes after death but spirits—and if we have led good lives, angels in heaven—and that spirits and angels have a form that is human in every way, then we can think intelligently about our state after death and about the Last Judgment. We do not need to think about these matters on the basis of an unintelligible faith, a faith that spawns only idle beliefs that are handed down through the ages. We can instead use our intellect to conclude for certain that the Last Judgment foretold in the Word is not going to happen in this earthly world but in the spiritual world, where everyone is gathered together. We can recognize as well that when the Last Judgment happens, that fact will surely be revealed, for the sake of the credibility of the Word.
5. I leave aside the paradoxical ideas about the destruction of the universe which people will entertain who do not know that a person is as much a person after death. These are like the other ideas and equally numerous. But when it is known that a person after death is not a breath or a puff of wind, but is a spirit, an angel in heaven if he has led a good life, and that spirits and angels have a complete human form, then it is possible to base one's ideas about the state of people after death and about the Last Judgment on understanding and not on faith accepted without understanding, which leads only to traditional beliefs. Understanding can also lead to the certain conclusion that the Last Judgment predicted in the Word will not take place in natural but in the spiritual world, where all are gathered. It also follows that, when the Last Judgment takes place, it must be revealed so that the Word remains credible.
5. I pass over paradoxes, similar to, and equally numerous with these, which the man who does not know that he is a man after death as before, must think concerning the destruction of the universe. But when he knows that a man after death is not an exhalation or a wind, but a spirit, and if he has lived well, an angel in heaven, and that spirits and angels are men in a perfect form, can then think from his understanding concerning the state of man after death, and the Last Judgment, and not from faith separate from the understanding, from which mere traditions go forth: and he may also with certainty conclude from his understanding, that the Last Judgment, which is predicted in the Word, will not exist in the natural world, but in the spiritual world, where all are together: and furthermore, that whenever it does exist, it must be revealed, for the sake of belief in the Word.
5. Ut praeteream paradoxa, quae homo, qui non scit quod post mortem sit homo sicut prius, cogitaturus esset de destructione universi; quae similia sunt, et aeque multa. Verum cum novit quod homo post mortem non sit halitus aut ventus, sed quod sit spiritus, ac si bene vixit, angelus in caelo, et quod spiritus et angeli sint in perfecta forma homines, tunc potest de statu hominum post mortem, et de ultimo judicio, ex intellectu cogitare, et non ex fide separata ab intellectu, ex qua merae traditiones exeunt: et quoque potest ex intellectu pro certo concludere, quod ultimum judicium, de quo praedicitur in Verbo, non exstiturum sit in mundo naturali, sed in mundo spirituali, ubi omnes simul sunt; tum etiam, quod ultimum judicium, quando fit, propter fidem Verbi, revelandum sit.