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Doc. 10.) 153
BISHOP JESPER SWEDBERG .
minutiæ , was composed by Magister Petrus Hesselius, who
nevertheless departed this life before Swedberg.
Swedberg died July 26, 1735. The funeral sermon was
delivered by Jacob Benzelius, Bishop of Gottenburg. He was
buried in the tomb prepared for him in the abbey church of
Varnhem . Over the entrance to the tomb is the following
inscription upon an oval stone :
The resting-place of
Bishop
Doctor Jesper Swedberg
and his dear wife
Fru Sara Swedenborg.
Anno 1720.
Of his portrait, engraved on copper, there have been
several editions ; 1. in 8vo, engraved in Upsal, 1700, by Olof
;
Thelott ; 2. in folio by the same, 1699, with this superscription:
“M: r Jesper Schwedeberg. Denominatus Præpositus Wynioc
krensis et Professor Theologiæ Ordinarius Upsaliensis ” (i. e.
Rector of Wingåker, and ordinary professor of Theology in
Upsal); with verses in Swedish and German; 3. in folio en
graved at Leipzig by Johan Ch. Boecklin. It has the same
Swedish and German verses with this inscription: " Jesper Swed
berg S. Theol. Doctor et Episcopus Scarensis antehac Theol.
Professor primarius et Pastor Upsaliensis.”
(Below is written :)
" Hæc erat in mediis facies illæsa favillis
Cum deflagravit, nocte fluente, domus,
Sic quoque post ignes, Genitor, tuæ famæ, supremos
Postque rogos, vivet nomen amorque Tui."
( This portrait lay in the midst of the burning ashes unhurt,
When at night the paternal mansion was consumed :
So also thy name and loving remembrance, O father,
Shall survive the funeral pile and the raging flames.)
This last mentioned inscription is by Emanuel Sweden
borg, and commemorates the wonderful preservation of the
copper-plate with the bishop’s portrait, in the fire which de
stroyed Brunsbo in 1712. Swedberg himself speaks of this (in
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