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REMARKS ON THE VERSIONS OF THE BIBLE USED BY HIM. 237
to him, I cannot at this time explain myself, because the
subject of religion in regard to my intercourse with the
spiritual world now makes a stir, as well here as in other
parts of the country, and this would in some degree
interfere with the subject. Some few days since, that
private concern of my own was determined in the clerical
assembly at the Diet. Whether the dean will be as
satisfied now as he has been hitherto is best known at
Gottenburg ; the clergy and others will probably give
some certain account of this next week, by letter : among
his party there have been some merciless slanderers, the
’ expressions of whom have fallen on the ground like fiery
balls from the clouds, and become extinguished. -I
remain, & c.,
" EMANUEL SWEDENBORG.
"Stockholm, Jan. 18, 1770."
REMARKS BY MR. A. NORDENSKJOLD,
ON THE
DIFFERENT EDITIONS OF THE BIBLE MADE USE
OF BY SWEDENBORG.
We have seen above p. 168, that after Swedenborg’s
spiritual illumination had commenced he applied himself
exclusively to the study of the Word, both as to its letter,
in the Hebrew text, and as to its " spirit and its life,
"
or as to that spiritual sense which he demonstrates as
existing in every part of the Holy Scriptures. It may
be interesting to the present as well as to future genera
tions, to know the different editions of the Bible which
he made use of. This information is contained in the
New Jerusalem Magazine for 1790, p. 87, where we
read as follows :
-
"Swedenborg possessed four editions of the Holy
Bible in Hebrew :
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