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100 [Doc. 10.
SWEDENBORG’S ANCESTRY.
Swedberg ridicules the pettiness of the one and the arrogance
of the other, and is grieved at the part he himself took in it ;
at least he did not " follow his times ” in these things long.
In the year 1674, he returned to Upsal, after having first
visited Copenhagen and several towns of Zealand. On his
arrival in Upsal, the student from Lund created quite a sen
sation. His plan in life had been determined in his early
years. He applied for a theological scholarship to the pro
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fessor of theology, Magister Brunner, who was dean of the faculty
that year. Brunner, astonished at the student dress of Lund,
which Swedberg had not yet laid aside, looked at him sharply,
crossed himself, and asked whether he, who was dressed in
such a worldly manner and in court costume, desired to become
a minister of the gospel. Swedberg did not wait to be asked
this question a second time. He went home, took off the
offensive garb, and purchased a simple greyish-black cloak;
and this, he added, was done just at the right time. Brunner,
who probably did not limit his examination to his outer man,
discovered the talents which lay concealed within. In short,
after two years, he took Swedberg into his own house, as
private tutor to his son Sebastian. “ In Brunner’s house," he
said, “I learned much that was good, both in respect to
manners and literary acquirements, but especially I learned
how to lead a pious, honourable, and serious life : for he him
self was spiritually minded both in his conversation and in his
intercourse with others, in his dress and in his whole being."
In the same year (1676) he took part in a disputation upon
the third part of the treatise De usu et valore consensus Patrum
in dogmatibus ecclesiasticis ( On the use and value of an
agreement of the Fathers in the dogmas of the church), by
P. Rudbeck, who was then a professor, but soon became a
bishop; he also pronounced the funeral oration on the occasion
of the death of A. Thermænius, the lector of the Greek
language in Westerås. He had likewise an opportunity of
exercising himself in preaching in Brunner’s prebend, Danmark ;
and after he had to mourn, in 1679, the departure from this
life of his fatherly friend, he preached for three years in the
church of the prebend, during the years of grace [i. e. during
the time when the widow of the late prebendary was allowed
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