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178 [Doc. 23.
SWEDENBORG’S ANCESTRY.
express my simple thoughts on the subject, I should first of
all recommend that the tender youth, after learning the
Catechism, commit to memory the leading passages from
Scripture on all the articles of faith, for which purpose the “ Syn
opsis Biblica ” of the late Laurelius may be augmented, and such
passages added as treat of a Christian life. Afterwards the
scholars ought to read my little Compendiolum Hafenrefferi,
which I have published in the Latin and Swedish languages
here at Skara, and by which the young are very much profited.
Might not Buchananus, Prudentius, and others, be read instead
of Ovid and Virgil? And instead of heathenish Greek books,
the Wisdom of Sirach and Tobit in the Greek language, to
gether with the New Testament ? So that the young, at the same
time they are increasing their knowledge of these languages,
may also grow in the fear of God. One chapter in the Swedish
Bible ought to be read every day by a lector theologiæ.
Here at Skara, where we have about 700 boys, scarcely three
had a Swedish Bible when I came. It is wrong of the
College of Chancery not to assent to my proposition about
the printing of the Bible. No doubt you have had a similar
experience ; wherefore I can expressmyself with greater freedom ,
and say: Crede Ruperto experto.
Governor H.’s63 book against me will probably be sub
mitted for your examination. God grant he leave out all
abuse ; for the rest I am not afraid. I forgot to remark
on the opinion of the College of Chancery on the subject of
language, that no one can invalidate my opinion, that we have
the best grammar in the Bibles of Gustavus I and II,
and in the writings of the same period, and that if any one
is not familiar with these works, he will never be able to
succeed in this matter. If any one abandon these, he upsets
the Bible, the prayers, the usual hymns, and also the laws, &c;
and then the confusion will be worse than we have had at
any time. It would be well, if this matter could be post
poned until after the appearance of my grammar. This is
the most difficult point in the whole regulation of schools.
And if you ſi. e. the College of Chancery] establish rules, if
you order and command in opposition to my grammar, it, not
you, will win, and thus the matter will be settled.
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