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276 SWEDENBORG’S CORRESPONDENCE. [Doc. 241.
burg except yourself. This little work has been sent to all
professors and clergymen in Holland, and has already reached
the principal universities of Germany ; it is being translated
into English in London, and will also be published in Paris.
We must therefore first wait for the judgment which is passed
upon it abroad, before it is generally made known in Sweden.
You will, therefore, keep it for the present for yourself alone.
On April 26 I shall leave for Paris ; and I remain, with
loving friendship,
Your most obedient servant and faithful friend,
EM. SWEDENBORG.
Amsterdam, April 23, 1769.
P. S. In the short treatise [Brief Exposition], which I
have sent you, as well as in all my former writings, I do not
mean a Son of God born from eternity, but the Son of God
conceived and born in the world, in whom is the Divine Tri
nity. In the Apostles’ creed, which was the confession of faith
of the Apostolic church, no other Son of God is mentioned,
nor is any other meant in the Gospels, Luke i, 32, 35 ; Matt.
iii, 17 ; xvii, 5 ; John xx, 31 ; 1 John v, 20, 21. The reason,
however, why the Nicene Council afterwards adopted a Son
of God from eternity, and added still another Divine person,
was this, that it could not discover any other expedient for
expelling the erroneous doctrine of Arius ; and for this reason,
especially, the present church insists that reason shall be
bound, and placed under obedience to a blind faith. But,
that this does not transcend man’s faculty of comprehension,
and that he is able to see and thus to believe, may be seen
in no. 117, and afterwards in no. 44.
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