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DOCUMENT 238.
THIRD LETTER OF EMANUEL SWEDENBORG
TO F. C. ETINGER.182
Reverend and Most Honoured Councillor,
I was glad to receive your letter, dated Murhard,
October 28. I am sorry you have not yet received the three
copies of the work on "Conjugial and Scortatory Love." I
took them to a place in Amsterdam, whence similar parcels
are despatched to various parts of Germany. I think they
are first conveyed to Arnhem, and are taken thence by coach
.
or carrier to their appointed places. I directed it to Wurtem
berg. Should the parcel have arrived there, it is most prob
ably in one of the hotels or inns where the carriers come, or
* The Latin original of this Document was in the possession of Prof.
Veesenmeyer in Ulm, but after his death it could not be found among his
papers. By the kind permission of the Professor, Dr. Im. Tafel took a
copy of the letter in 1833, and inserted it in his German edition of the
"Swedenborg Documents," p. 362. A portion of the letter, beginning with
the second paragraph, had been previously printed by Etinger himself in
a German edition of Swedenborg’s work "The Earths in the Universe,"
(p. 222), which was translated by one of his nephews, and seen through
the press by him in 1770. In the Appendix to that work (p. 223) is also
printed the Latin original of the paper on "The natural and spiritual sense
of the Word," which accompanies this letter. Both these documents, as
printed by Dr. Im. Tafel, were introduced into the Supplement to the en
larged English edition of the "Swedenborg Documents," pp. 78 to 81. The
above is the first complete translation of the Document into English. As
much of it as had been printed by Etinger, had appeared before in an
English dress in the "New Jerusalem Magazine" of 1790, together with the
paper on "The natural and spiritual sense of the Word" (see pp. 35 to 38) ;
and thence it was incorporated into the English and American editions of
the "Swedenborg Documents."
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