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Doc. 5.) 39
ROBSAHM’S MEMOIRS.
the Lord has promised to me, that I shall not die, until
I shall have received from the press this work, (the Vera
Christiana Religio ), which is now ready to be printed and for
the sake of which I now undertake this journey ; but if we do
not meet again in the body we shall meet in the presence of
the Lord, provided we live in this world according to His
will and not according to our own." He then took leave of
me in as blithe and cheerful a frame of mind, as if he had
been a man in his best years ; and the same day he departed
for the last time from Sweden.
22. I asked Swedenborg once whether his explanations
would be received in Christendom. “ About that,” said he,
“I can say nothing; but I suppose that in their proper time
they will be received ; for otherwise the Lord would not have
disclosed what has heretofore lain concealed ."
23. He was never ill except when temptations came over
him ; but he was frequently troubled with tooth -ache. I came
to him once on such an occasion, when he complained of a
severe tooth -ache, which had continued for several days. I
recommended to him a common remedy for soothing the
pain ; but he answered at once, that his tooth-ache was not
caused by a diseased nerve, but by the influx of hell from
hypocrites, who tempted him, and who by correspondence
caused this pain, which he said, he knew, would soon stop
and leave him.26
24. Respecting his temptations I collected information from
his modest servants, the old gardener and his wife, who told me
with sympathizing and compassionate words that Swedenborg
often spoke aloud in his room, and was indignant when evil
spirits were with him ; this they could hear the more distinctly,
because their room was near his ; when he was asked, why
he had been so restless during the night, he answered that per.
mission had been given to evil spirits to revile him , and that
he spoke to and was indignant with them. It often happened
that he wept bitterly, and called out with a loud voice, and
prayed to the Lord, that He would not leave him in the
temptation which had come upon him. The words which he
cried out were these: "Oh Lord, help me! Oh Lord, my God,
do not forsake me!" When it was all over, and his people
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