72 我们与生俱来的所是,无论好坏,无论有没有用,都是天然的,都是拦阻圣灵将神圣的生命构成到我们这人里面;为这缘故,我们天然的力量、天然的智慧、天然的聪明、天然的个性、天然的缺点、天然的美德,加上我们的性格和习惯,都必须被拆毁,好使圣灵在我们里面形成新的个性、新的性格、新的习惯、新的美德和新的属性。
72 Whatever we are by birth, whether good or bad, whether useful or not, is natural and altogether a hindrance to the Holy Spirit in constituting the divine life into our being; for this reason our natural strength, natural wisdom, natural cleverness, natural disposition, natural shortcomings, natural virtues, plus our character and habits, must all be torn down in order that the Holy Spirit may form in us a new disposition, new character, new habits, new virtues, and new attributes.