SS30.这些事是以下内容的前言，以便更好地理解接下来的讨论；重点在于论证：圣言的属世意义，也就是字义，是它的属灵和属天意义的基础，容器和支撑。
30. This is by way of preface to what follows, so that the discussion there can readily be understood; the point being to demonstrate that the earthly meaning of the Word, which is its literal meaning, is the foundation, container, and support of its spiritual and heavenly meanings.
30. We premise these observations for the sake of those that follow, in order that they may be comprehended and understood; that it may now be seen at this point that the Word’s natural sense, which is its literal sense, is the foundation, containing vessel, and buttress of its spiritual and celestial senses.
30. These things are stated to introduce what follows, that this may be comprehended intellectually; and now, at this point, that it may be understood that the natural sense of the Word, or the sense of the Letter, is the basis, the containant and the support of its spiritual and celestial sense.
30. These things are premised with a view to those which follow, in order that they may be comprehended with understanding; and for the present purpose that it may be comprehended that the natural sense of the Word which is the sense of the letter, is the basis, the container, and the support of its spiritual sense and of its celestial sense.
30. Haec praemissa sunt propter sequentia, ut ea intellectualiter comprehendantur; hic nunc ut comprehendatur quod sensus naturalis Verbi, qui est sensus litterae ejus, sit basis, continens et firmamentum sensus spiritualis et sensus caelestis ejus.