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LETTER FROM DR. BEYER TO DR. OETINGER. 221
but if we give a thorough consideration to the Doctrine
of the Sacred Scripture above mentioned, and withal
consult the Arcana Calestia, 2763, 7055, 9094, with
the Heaven and Hell, 254, and the Apocalypse Re
vealed, 945, we shall be struck with such an astonish
ment at the Sacred Scripture, as to acknowledge how
very wrong it is to startle so much at writings similar in
their nature.
"IV. This consideration relieves me from the necessity
I should otherwise be under, of saying something re
specting the science of correspondences, as being highly
necessary for the interpretation of the divine prophecies ;
nor will it cost any man much labour, to see into the
meaning of the Word, divested of its material clothing ;
for example, how the words, house, city, Jerusalem, and
others, do and can contain something internal, as oil
within the fruit ; I say it will not cost any man much
labour, who will not esteem it unworthy of him to give a
thorough reading to those demonstrations, contained in
the small volume on The White Horse, 1-5, and the
Apocalypse Revealed, from the beginning to the end,
and especially 907.
"V. Respecting the Last Judgment, and Swedenborg’s
explanation of the New Heaven and the New Earth, his
work on these subjects, published in 1757, with its con
tinuation in 1763, presents to us a sound knowledge con
cerning them. As to the doctrine of the resurrection, he
everywhere sets at rest the acute understanding upon
that subject, and that by arguments which he derives
from the nature of both worlds : an intellect which extends
itself above the world and the senses, sees very easily
that his sentiments are by no means contrary to the
Scripture, but, on the contrary, do altogether coincide
with it.
"VI. But more important seems to be the charge,
which you do not hesitate to bring against Swedenborg,
namely, that he pays no regard to the analogy of faith,
and in his doctrine respecting the most Holy Trinity,
does not hold with the apostles, but with Schwenkfeld .
This, I must allow, is a very great and a very important
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