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184 [Doc. 27.
SWEDENBORG’S ANCESTRY.
suffer; and many evil consequences will come upon us from
God’s judgment. Dear Brother, be on your guard. Who knows,
if God has not raised you for this very purpose to your present
post of honour ? No delay with the grammar will be caused
by me. Lately I have been on visitation.
I thank you much for the favourable censorial opinion
of my Catechism . I hope to receive the same for my Grammar,
which will be of great use to the work. The Lexicon is proba
bly now in your hands. It was a most difficult and laborious
work, extending over thirty years. The lesser Swedish-Latin
and Latin -Swedish Dictionary I have also ready, but without
any quotations. Each of these works will make a moderate
octavo volume, and will form a useful and necessary work, so
that the publisher ought to make a good profit by it. I have
so many works on spiritual subjects to print, that ten years will
not suffice for them.
I hear, then, that old Hjärne53 is selling out ( säljer af).*
May God change his heart !
Emanuel gives me hope, that those concerned will soon
agree about the division of the inheritance. God grant it !
As in the time of the pestilence I wrote my thoughts on
death, so as to prepare myself for judgment
, I have now written
my thoughts upon the last judgment, calling the book Casa
pauperum et Gaza divitum . It treats of real mercy towards
the poor and wretched, on the basis of Matthew xxv. I was an
hungered, &c.; striving to live in accordance therewith, and
in such a manner, as not to be found wanting in the day of
judgment. The book is of the same size as my Catechism.
Will it not be sufficient for the lectors in theology here
at Skara to examine it, as they did with the “ Sabbath Rest,"
the "Catechism," the “Thoughts on Death,” “Rules for
Youth,” &c ; so that I need not send it to you, who have,
besides, your hands full of works that are to be printed ?
Together with Emanuel I am waiting for the funeral sermon
on the late King, and the personal account of him . The latter
I have a great desire to read. The former is probably more
general.
* Perhaps this passage ought to read seglar af, i. e. is sailing away, is
departing Yet Hjärne did not die until 1724.
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