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JACOBUS AND HENRICUS BENZELIUS. 609
NOTE 7.
JACOBUS AND HENRICUS BENZELIUS.
Jacobus and Henricus Benzelius, younger brothers of Ericus
Benzelius the younger.
A.
Jacobus Benzelius was born in 1983, became pastor of Näs in
1709, professor of theology at Lund in 1718, doctor of theology in
1725, Bishop of Gottenburg in 1731, and Archbishop of Upsal after
the death of his brother Ericus in 1744. In his archiepiscopal capacity
he married the Crown -prince Adolphus Frederic to the Princess Louisa
Ulrica; and in 1746 baptised Prince Gustavus, afterwards Gustavus III.
He died in 1747 in Stockholm, during the session of the Diet.
Concerning him Swedenborg says in the “Smaller Diary," p. 49, “ As
long as he was in the world he was esteemed on account of his
erudition, nor was his real quality known to any one. But in the
other life it appeared after some time that he was crafty.
for a time among those who are of this character, and had often to
bear grievous things, and to suffer severe punishments.” At p. 64 he
describes how Jacob Benzelius desired to infest and persecute him ,
(see also pp. 65, 67, 72.) His intense love of ruling is described in
the " Larger Diary," Nos. 5004, 5006, 5074; and his vindictive spirit
in No. 5897; (see also Nos. 5896, 6028, 6033, 6034.) He desired
to receive the truths of faith in the other life, but could not on
account of the falsities of evil in his mind, which could not be
removed (see No. 6044).
He was
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B.
Henricus Benzelius was born in 1689. He undertook a long
journey abroad from 1712 to 1718 (see Document 45); became
professor of philosophy at Lund in 1719, and first professor of
theology in 1738. In 1740, he was made Bishop of Lund; and in
1747, he succeeded his brother Jacobus as Archbishop of Upsal. He
died in 1758. Swedenborg reports concerning him in the Diary,"
No. 6072, " I learned by experience that idleness is the devil’s pillow ;
that it is like a sponge which attracts impure water of various
kinds.... This appeared from Henr. Benzelius; he loved idleness,
and contracted very many evils from its delight; he suffered himself
also to be led by the delights of these evils, and thus by the spirits
which were in them ."
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