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TRIAL AT GOTTENBURG.
(a) "The Sacred Scripture has been hitherto badly and perverse
ly explained (A. R. p. 21 , no. 1). Too much has been made
of the literal sense, of which the true meaning cannot be com
prehended, before the spiritual, the angelic, and the Divine
sense has first been collected. Since the Last Judgment,
which took place in the spiritual world as early as 1757, and
since the Coming of the New Jerusalem, this sense has been
for the first time revealed by God to Assessor Swedenborg,
who, as far as this is concerned, does not seem to be unwilling
to be regarded as a God-inspired man (Vir Theopneustos).
Again, the Sacred Scripture has been written by mere corre
spondences; and without the knowledge of correspondences, and
a special illustration and hence revelation, it cannot be under
stood in by far the greater number of passages (see Preface).
How then should he who is not in a state of illustration, or
who does not understand the doctrine of correspondences,
know e. g. that ȧvaßhéya , to receive sight (recipere visum)
signifies that they who have been in ignorance of the truth
would receive intelligence ; that to receive hearing (recipere
auditum) signifies, that they who had not heard before con
cerning God and the Word would listen and obey ; that to
be resuscitated from the dead signifies that they who other
wise would have perished are made alive ; that a garden, a
grove, a forest signify wisdom and knowledge ; that the olive
tree, the vine, the cedar, the oak signify the celestial, the
spiritual, the rational, natural, and sensual good and truth of
the church; that a mountain, a hill, a valley signify the higher,
lower, and lowest things of the church; that Egypt signifies
knowledge, Ashur reason, Moab the adulteration of good, the
sons of Ammon the adulteration of truth, Tyre and Sidon the
thoughts of truth and good ? I ask, can the Sacred Scripture
with such an explanation remain any longer the fundamental
ground (
principium) for the knowledge of Faith, Religion, and
Revealed Theology.
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b) "God is one in essence and in person, in whom is a Trinity,
and the Lord is that God. The Lord is the Only God, in
whom is the Trinity (Preface). The whole Trinity is in the
Lord. His Divine (the Divine nature) is called Father. His
Human (the Human nature) is the Son. And the Divine
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