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204 DOCUMENTS CONCERNING SWEDENBORG.
many theologians in Germany, whether fixed principles
of philosophy should be adopted as the basis of Scriptural
interpretation ; the philosophy of Wolfius was that which
some theologians agreed to adopt. Oetinger opposed this
theological movement, and maintained that the grund
weisheit of Scripture, that is, its interior truths and
evidence, should be the means of its interpretation.
"Swedenborg (says Oetinger, in another place, ) is, in
my estimation, the forerunner of a new era. That, in
the kingdom of Jesus Christ upon earth, according to
Dan. ii. 44, vii. 27, the faithful will have a faculty, by
which they will be able to hold communion, and converse
with those who are in the marriage of the Lamb, cannot
be doubted. For according to Heb. xii. 22, the faithful
have come to Mount Zion, and to an innumerable com
pany of angels, not only in faith, but by means of the
gifts of the Spirit, they can also come into communion
with them, and hear and see them. This gift, or this
office, by which others, who cannot see and hear, may
be instructed in the things of heaven, ought not to be
doubted or denied in respect to Swedenborg, because the
facts evincing Swedenborg’s communication with the
world of spirits, are denied by nobody in Stockholm,*
and these facts prove that Swedenborg’s assertion is right,
when he says, that he has communication with the world
of spirits."
"Hence (continues Oetinger,) it may be seen, why
God has, at this time, permitted such a man as Swe
denborg to arise, and why he was educated by his
father, a most venerable bishop, and of noble rank, so
carefully in innocence, and in scientific learning ; all
these preparations, under Providence, tended to fit him
to pass through the most important events, which no
other man has had to experience. As Swedenborg is
the instrument of restoring the lost communion with the
invisible world, that pure and unspotted life, in which
we see he was trained and educated, was necessary. The
first promise that Jesus gave to His disciples, was, ’ That
* These facts were the memorable occurrences mentioned
above pp. 118-136.
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