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156 [Doc. 11.
SWEDENBORG’S ANCESTRY.
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the letter h in jagh, migh and slicht, and using a double letter
to express a single articulate sound ; still there was not the
least ill -will between us. Yet I know his disposition very
well, and how, with his immoderate language and judgment
,
he spares no one who differs from him, no matter who he
be. I was therefore prepared to hear such things from
him; and for the same reason had defended myself on these
two points in my preface, SS 15 and 24 ; where also in § 20
I had deprecated any disputes on this subject. His having in
his late publication heaped abuses upon other honest men, and
especially upon myself, moves me a little, but not much. For
this is due to his arrogance, in claiming to know everything
about everything, which has always been, and still is, one
of his peculiarities. When I was graciously ordered by His
Majesty to appear with my “Shibboleth” before the learned,
and to submit it publicly to their criticisms, every thing went
on well; but a certain Professor of theology made a violent
attack upon the passage at p. 455, “ Shame upon you,
(wet hut) I christen you Andrew," saying, that if he had
been the Censor, he would never have allowed it to be printed.
I let him finish his railing, and then replied to him
mildly, and among other things told him : When John baptized,
he said to the Pharisees and Sadducees, and to the people
that came to him to be baptized, “Ye generation of vipers ” &c.
(Matt. iii, 7, Luke iii, 7). Therefore Stigzelius might well say
to Rudbeck’s wife, who was then a young maid and had given
birth to a child, “Shame upon you (wet hut), I baptize you
Andrew." And if the Professor had then been the Censor, we
should not have had “ the gospels of the evangelists Matthew
and Luke.” Exception, however, was not so much taken to
this, as to that which was said in the letter respecting the priests,
and the gentlemen and ladies of the nobility. It was also a little
too strong for the priests and nobility of the present day.
There were in Lund many distinguished persons of both these
orders, who wished that my public disputation should be
forbidden, and who endeavoured to prevail upon the King for
that purpose, but in vain. The other professors were much
milder. The disputation lasted from nine till two o’clock;
and every thing went off pleasantly and decorously. No one,
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