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102 [Doc. 10.
SWEDENBORG’S ANCESTRY.
after life as his “ two spiritual fathers. ” As the whole
direction of Swedberg’s mind was pietistic, in the true sense
of the word, he desired very much to visit Spener in Frankfort;
but as this founder of the Pietists was ill at the time, he
had to give up the hope of having this desire fulfilled. In
the year 1685, he left Strasburg, and visited Heidelberg,
Mannheim , and other places. InMannheim he became acquainted
with a Lutheran clergyman, who with great zeal defended in
a disputation his thesis, that we must say, “ Vater unser " [in
the Lord’s prayer), and not “ Unser Vater", as his opponent
maintained. With such petty disputes the theologians at that
time frequently busied themselves, for lack of something better.
This was not the only dispute of the kind that Swedberg was
obliged to listen to during his journey. In Giessen he fell in
with the theologians Clodius, Hannekenius, and Arcularius;
but more valuable to him seems to have been his acquaintance
with Ludolphus, in Frankfort on the Main. Among other
things he related of this man, that he “ was very well dis
posed towards the Swedes, thinking a great deal of them,"
that he had himself been in Sweden, travelling about every
where, and that he was the only one whom Swedberg met in
his journey with whom he could converse in Swedish. “ The
correctness of Ludolphus’s remark that there had never been
published in Sweden a Swedish grammar, Swedberg was
obliged to admit with a blush of shame.” From Frankfort he
continued his journey down the Rhine to Holland, taking a
look at the towns of Mayence, Cologne, and others, where he
had an opportunity of becoming more closely acquainted with
the superstition of the Catholics, and the could do this so
much the better, because at Easter this superstition exhibits
itself in its greatest nakedness. On May 19, he came to Leyden,
where he spent several days, enjoying the society of Pro
fessors Jacob Gronovius and Stephen Le Moine ; the former
of whom is well known from his treatise respecting Judas
Iscariot, in which he proves that the traitor was not torn in
two, but was strangled to death. From Holland he went
by sea to Hamburg, where he stayed two months and a half,
during which he became very intimate with the learned
Oriental scholar Edzardus, with whom he lodged and boarded.
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