339、前面说过，孩子们要么具有属天的秉性，要么具有属灵的秉性。很容易将具有属天秉性的孩子与具有属灵秉性的孩子区分开。前者的思想、言语和行为如此地温柔，以至于流出的全是对主的良善之爱和对其他孩子的爱，几乎不出现其它任何东西；后者在思想、言语和行为上就没有这样温柔，在属于他们的一切当中显出某种振动，类似翅膀的振动。他们的差别还可从他们的烦恼和其它事情上看出来。
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339. 前面说过, 孩子要么具有属天的性质, 要么具有属灵的性质. 具有属天性质的孩子很容易与具有属灵性质的孩子区分开. 前者的思维, 言语和行为如此温柔, 以致除了从对良善的爱, 对主之爱和对其他孩子的爱所流出之物外, 几乎没有任何东西出现. 但具有属灵性质的孩子在思维, 言语和行为上就没有如此温柔; 相反, 有某种类似展翅之物以细微的方式在他们身上显现出来. 这种区别还可从他们的烦恼和其它事物看出来.
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339. 我上面說過, 孩子或有屬天的秉性, 或有屬靈的秉性, 兩者很容易分辨:前者在思想, 言語, 舉止上更溫柔, 給人的感受幾乎全是對良善, 對主, 對其他小朋友的仁愛;後者在思想, 言語, 舉止上要粗獷一些, 時常顯出某種類似拍打翅膀的模樣。另外, 從他們生起煩惱也能看出兩者的差別。
339. I mentioned earlier that children have either a heavenly or a spiritual nature. You can tell the ones of a heavenly nature from the ones of a spiritual nature very clearly. The former think and talk and act more gently, so that hardly anything is perceptible but something flowing from a love of what is good, a love for the Lord and for other children. The latter do not think and talk and act so gently. Instead, there is something like fluttering wings that shows in them in small ways. Then too, it can be seen in their annoyance, as well as in other things.
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339. It has been said above that little children are of a genius either celestial or spiritual. Those of a celestial genius are easily distinguished from those of a spiritual genius. The former think, speak and act so gently that hardly anything appears except what flows from a love of good to the Lord and towards other little children. But those of a spiritual genius are not so gentle; but in everything with them there appears a sort of vibration, as of wings. This is evident from their indignation and from other things.
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339. It has been said above that children are of a genius either celestial or spiritual. Those of a celestial genius are easily distinguished from those of a spiritual genius. Their thought, speech, and action, is so gentle that hardly anything appears except what flows from a love of good to the Lord and from a love for other children. But those of a spiritual genius are not so gentle; but in everything with them there appears a sort of vibration, as of wings. The difference is seen also in their ill-feeling and in other things.
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339. Dictum supra est, quod infantes sint genio vel caelesti vel spirituali. Qui genio caelesti sunt probe dignoscuntur ab illis qui genio spirituali; illi molliuscule cogitant, loquuntur, et agunt, sic ut vix quicquam appareat nisi fluens quid ex amore boni in Dominum, et erga infantes alios; hi autem non ita molliter, sed quoddam quasi alatum vibratile se manifestat in singulis apud illos; tum quoque patet ab indignatione eorum, praeter alia.