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256 SWEDENBORG’S CORRESPONDENCE. [Doc . 232.
cent on Mount Sinai have upon the Israelitish people, who,
notwithstanding, after the lapse of a month made for them
selves a golden calf, and worshipped it in place of Jehovah.
And what effect did the Lord’s miracles have upon the Jewish
nation, by whom He was notwithstanding crucified ? The same
would be the case now, should the Lord appear in the clouds
with the angels and trumpets ; as described in Luke xiv, 16,
29-31. The sign, given at this day, will be illustration, and
thence an acknowledgment and a reception of the truths of
the New Church ; with some also there will be an illustration
which speaks (illustratio loquens),* which is more than a sign.
But some sign will perhaps still be given.
II. Query: Whether I have conversed with the apostles ?
Answer: I have conversed with Paul for an entire year, and
also on the subject of what he wrote in his epistle to the
Romans, iii, 28. Three times I spoke with John, once with
Moses, a hundred times with Luther, who confessed to me
that, contrary to an admonition received from an angel, he ac
cepted the doctrine of faith alone solely for the purpose of
separating from the Papists. With the angels, however, I have
now conversed for twenty-two years, and I am still conversing
with them daily ; these the Lord has associated with me.
There was no use in my mentioning this in my writings ;
for who would have believed it ? and who would not have said,
show me a sign that I may believe ? And this every one
would say who did not see it.
III. Query: Why from being a philosopher I have been
chosen? Answer : The cause of this has been, that the spiri
by Dr. Clemm in 1767, (see footnote to Document 229). It was afterwards
reprinted by Dr. Im. Tafel in his "Swedenborg Documents," p. 355, and
inserted in the supplement to the enlarged English edition of 1855, p. 76.
The first English translation of this letter, prepared from the Danish trans
lation, was published in 1784 in the Appendix to the second edition of the
"Intercourse between the Soul and the Body," p. 42; and was transferred
thence to the "New Jerusalem Magazine" of 1790, p. 34. The same trans
lation was afterwards with a few changes introduced into the English trans
lation of Dr. Im. Tafel’s "Swedenborg Documents," published in England
and America.
* Swedenborg here evidently means himself from what he has said in
the Invitatio ad Novam Ecclesiam, nos. 43, 44, and 52.
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