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DOCUMENT 231.
C. F. ETINGER182 TO EMANUEL SWEDENBORG.*
Stuttgart, October 7, 1766.
As I am here on matters of the Diet (Land
schaft
), I received yesterday your favour of September 23. I
have in the mean time obtained the catalogue of your books,
and have read the remaining books, especially that which treats
of the Wisdom of the Angels;† and have found therein much
that agrees with the Holy Scripture. But, my dear Sir, you
will scarcely be willing to believe how much I had to suffer
on your account, for having translated merely the things seen
recorded in the first volume of your work.‡
You solemnly bear witness in your letter that the Lord
Himself appeared to you and sent you to do that which you
are now doing. I believe that your sight has been opened
like that of Gehazi to see things which are without a parallel.
I believe that from having been a celebrated philosopher you
* This letter was originally written in the Latin language ; a German
translation was published in 1767 by Dr. Clemm in his " Vollständige Ein
leitung," &c. (see footnote to Document 229), p. 210, and reprinted by
Dr. Im. Tafel in his German edition of the "Swedenborg Documents"
(p. 350 to 354). It has never before been translated into English.
Prelate Etinger means here "The Wisdom of the Angels respecting
the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom," and "The Wisdom of the angels
respecting the Divine Providence."
In his work entitled : "The Earthly and Heavenly Philosophy of
Swedenborg and others" (Swedenborg’s und anderer Irdische und Himm
lische Philosophie, Frankfort and Leipzig, 1765), Etinger had translated
the memorable relations appended to the various chapters in the first
volume of the Arcana Calestia.
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