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Doc. 225.] SWEDENBORG TO COUNT SCHEFFER. 241
Church might be commenced through them; wherefore matters
of doctrine could not be written in the style of the Word,
but they had to be expressed in such a manner, as to be
understood more clearly and intimately. The writings of the
apostles are, nevertheless, good books of the church, insisting
upon the doctrine of charity and its faith as strongly as the
Lord Himself has done in the Gospels and the Book of
Revelation ; as may be seen and found evident by every one
who in reading them directs his attention to these points.
That Paul’s expression in Romans ii, 28, concerning Justific
ation by Faith, has been quite misunderstood, is proved in the
Apocalypsis Revelata, no. 417, to which you may refer ; where
fore the doctrine of Justification by Faith Alone, which con
stitutes the theology of the Reformed churches at the present
day, is built on an entirely false foundation. With my kindest
remembrances to your and my friends, I remain with esteem,
Your obedient servant,
EM. SWEDENBORG.
Amsterdam, April 15, 1766.
DOCUMENT 225.
EMANUEL SWEDENBORG TO THE [SWEDISH]
AMBASSADOR [IN PARIS].*
Your Excellency,
I passed the winter at Amsterdam, and during
that period published an Explanation of the Book of Revel
ation, entitled Apocalypsis Revelata, containing arcana hitherto
* The Swedish original of this letter is lost. The English translation
of which the above is a reproduction with a slight alteration of style, was
first published in the Appendix to the second edition of "A theosophic
treatise on Influx," by Swedenborg; which appeared in 1784. The appendix
was also published under the separate title of "An Eulogium on the lately
deceased Mr. Emanuel Swedenborg, to which is added a variety of anecdotes
and observations on Mr. Swedenborg," &c. (p. 37). The original draughts
of Documents 225, 226, and 239 seem to have been discovered by the
brothers Nordensköld among the Swedenborg MSS., and brought to London
in 1783 by C. F. Nordensköld (see Note 20, Vol. I, p. 622).- The letter
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