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Doc. 6.] 55
PERNETY’S ACCOUNT.
Tidning” was presented by the editor of the present Docu
ments to the Swedenborg Society, in 1872.
After calling attention to the changes in the names of per
sons in the Sacred Scripture, Pernety begins his account of
Swedenborg thus :
1. Emanuel Swedenborg was originally called Swedberg,
after his father, Jesper Swedberg, Bishop of Skara in Wester
Gothland, a learned man, who was respected on account of
his virtues, and beloved by all good Christians. After
Emanuel had (in agreement with a custom prevalent in Swe
den, according to which the sons of bishops are raised into
the rank of nobility with a seat in the Diet of the country)
been ennobled, his name was changed to Swedenborg; which,
in the German, as well as in the Swedish language, signifies
protection or defence, according to the interpretation of the
person by whom these notices or anecdotes have been com
municated to me, and who adds : “ He will certainly be a
protector to all those who are disposed for regeneration, by
a knowledge and reception of the truths which the Lord was
pleased to reveal to him , in order that he might communicate
them to men ; and as he has been an instrument in the hands
of the Lord of the universe, he may be looked upon as a
tutelary angel, not only of the Swedes, but even of the whole
of Europe."
2. Swedenborg was an Assessor in the College of Mines,
and a member of the Academy of Sciences. The little value
which he placed upon titles, and honours, and greatness among
men, induced him to resign his office of Assessor, as may be
seen below from the letter which Springer,121 * the Councillor
of Commerce, wrote to me.
3. He owned a house in the southern suburb [of Stock
holm), which was built and arranged according to his own
taste; its rooms, which were limited in number, were con
venient only for him . Immediately adjoining the house was
a garden of considerable size, in the centre of which he had
* Springer’s letter to Pernety will be found in Section X among the
Testimonies collected concerning Swedenborg in England.
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