169、属世之人可能认为，如果把时间、空间和物质的观念都拿走，他就会失去一切思维，因为世人的一切思维都以它们为基础。｛注1｝但要让他知道，思维只要在何种程度上源自时间、空间和物质，就在何种程度上受到限制和束缚；但在何种程度上不源自它们，就在何种和平度上没有限制并扩展，因为心智在同等程度上被提升，超越肉体感官和世俗的事物。正是因为如此，天使才有了一种可以说是不可思议的智慧，因为它没落入全由物质和属世的事物构成的观念中。
｛注1｝：世人不像天使那样脱离时间观念思考（3404）。【中】结合前文的内容，笔者以为，真实存在的只有状态，时间为世人所造，以方便描述状态的变化（运动），本身不是真实存在的。而状态变化（运动）的提法也会误导人，以为那是同一事物的一系列的改变（运动），事实上，那只是不断被创造、被产生的不同的存在状态。
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169. 属世人可能认为, 如果时间, 空间和物质的概念都被夺走, 他就会丧失一切思维; 因为人的一切思维都建立在这些基础之上. 但要让他知道, 思维在何等程度程度上从时间, 空间和物质形成, 就在何等程度上受到限制和束缚; 相反, 在何等程度上不从这类事物形成, 就在何等程度上不受限制, 并得以发散, 因为心智在同等程度上被提升超越肉体和世俗事物. 这就是天使智慧的源头; 这种智慧如此高深, 以致可称之为无法理解, 因为它不落入纯由肉体和世俗事物构成的观念.
注: 世人不像天使那样脱离时间观念进行思考(天国的奥秘 3404节).
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169. 屬物質之人或許認為, 倘若剝離時間, 空間和物質的觀念, 我們的思想就不存在了, 因為人的思維是建立在這些基礎之上。但願他們明白, 源自時間, 空間和物質的思維是受限制和束縛的, 只有脫離這些觀念, 我們的思維才能自由和擴張。因為那樣的話, 我們的思想就能超越肉體和世界的局限, 這正是天人獲得智慧的原因。他們的智慧不可思議, 因為超越了肉體和物質的觀念。
169. A natural person may believe that we would have no thought if concepts of time, space, and matter were taken away from us, that all our thought is based on these foundations. 1Let such people know, though, that thoughts are limited and constrained to the extent that they derive from time, space, and matter, and that they are freed and expanded to the extent that they do not derive from such things, because to that same extent the mind is raised above bodily and worldly considerations. This is the source of angels' wisdom, which is so great that we must call it incomprehensible, since it does not fit into ideas that are formed merely from these [lower] concerns.
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1. Unlike angels, we do not think without some concept of time: 3404.
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169. The natural man can be of the opinion that he would be deprived of all thought if the ideas of time, space and material things were taken away, for upon these all man's thought rests. 1But let him know that so far as thoughts partake of time, space and matter, they are limited and confined, but are unlimited and extended so far as they do not partake of these, since the mind is in that measure raised above bodily and worldly things. It is from this that angels have a wisdom such as may be described as incomprehensible, because it does not fall into ideas that are wholly made up of corporeal and worldly things.
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1. Man does not think, as angels do, apart from the idea of time (Arcana Coelestia 3404).
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169. The natural man might think that he would be deprived of all thought if the ideas of time, space, and material things were taken away; for upon these all the thought of man rests. 1But let him know that so far as thoughts partake of time, space, and matter they are limited and confined, but are unlimited and extended so far as they do not partake of these, since the mind is in that measure raised above bodily and worldly things. This is the source of wisdom to the angels; and such wisdom as is called incomprehensible, because it does not fall into ideas that are wholly made up of what is material.
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169. Homo naturalis credere potest, quod nulla ei cogitatio esset, si ideae temporis, spatii, et materialium auferrentur, super illis enim fundatur omnis cogitatio quae homini 1sed sciat, quod cogitationes tantum finitae sint et coarctentur, quantum ex tempore, spatio, et materiali trahunt et tantum non finitae sint et extendantur, quantum ex illis non trahunt, quoniam tantum mens elevatur supra corporea et mundana. Angelis sapientia inde est, et talis ut dicatur incomprehensibilis, quia non cadit in ideas quae mere ex talibus consistunt.
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