363.“挑水的人”（申命记29:11;约书亚记9:21,23,27）是指谁。那些出于圣言，而非出于基于真理的信仰认为自己配上天堂，因为他们在葡萄园中劳碌，或传讲、教导并因此以为他们值得救赎的人，在来世通过相应的幻想被洁净，尤其通过这一幻想：他们觉得自己似乎从湖里或四围的海里挑水，把水倒在水槽里饮羊群，水槽满了就歇息，直到再去挑水。水槽又被倒满，直到水溢出来。羊群似乎真的来喝了；不过，我无法确定羊群是否真的向他们显现了。（1747年12月18日）
363. Who the Water Carriers are [cf. Deut. 29:11, Josh. 9:21,23,27]
Those who think from the Word, but not from a belief grounded in truth, that they deserve heaven because they labor in the vineyard, or preach, and also teach, and therefore think that they merit salvation, are purged in the other life by means of appropriate fantasies, but especially by this, that they seem to themselves to be carrying water from lakes or from a sea surrounding them and pouring this water into a trough, to give a flock to drink. When the trough is filled up, they rest, until they again draw and the trough is filled again to overflowing.
A flock did, in fact, appear to come to drink, but whether the flock appears to them, I cannot yet affirm. 1747, 18 December.
363. WHO THE "DRAWERS OF WATER" ARE
Those who, without true faith, suppose from the Word that they merit heaven from having labored in the vineyard, or having preached and taught, and hence suppose that they merit salvation, are vastated by corresponding phantasies in the other life; but principally by this, that they seem to themselves to carry water from ponds, or from the sea by which they are surrounded, and to pour it into a trough so that a flock may drink. When the trough is filled, they rest until they again draw. The trough is filled until the water overflows. It seemed indeed as though a flock would come and drink: but whether a flock does appear to them cannot yet be confirmed. 1747, Dec. 18.
363. Quinam Aquarii [cf Deut. XXIX: II, Jos. IX: 21, 22, 27, 22, 27]
Qui ex Verbo, absque vera fide, putant se mereri coelum, ex eo quod laborent in vinea, seu praedicent, ac docent, ac inde putant se mereri salutem, ii vastantur in altera vita, per phantasias correspondentes, sed praecipue per id, quod videantur sibi portare aquas ex lacubus seu mari, quo circumcincti sunt, quam aquam hauriunt in canalem, ut potent gregem, quando canalis repletus est, tunc quiescunt, usque dum iterum hauriant, canalis repletur usque ut aqua circumfundatur; visum quidem est, quasi grex veniret, qui potaretur, verum annon grex iis appareat, nondum constare potest. 1747, 18 Dec.