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294 [Doc. 245.
TRIAL AT GOTTENBURG.
Dr. Rosén, who had been absent at the last two sittings
of the Consistory, handed in on April 5 the following opinion
on Swedenborg’s writings :
D.
DR. ROSEN45 ON THE WRITINGS OF SWEDENBORG.*
"My thoughts respecting the well-born Assessor Sweden
borg and his theological writings are as follows :
"Were I, in violation of the law, to condemn any one
unheard, or to condemn the writings of an author without
having properly examined them, I might, indeed, after a super
ficial examination find a good deal in these writings which is
opposed to our accepted creed. Yet I should be very slow
in regarding as a Socinian him who, with all due reverence,
regards Christ as God, even though he should condemn a good
many [other doctrines]. And, again, it would be difficult for
me to believe that any one denies the atonement who attributes
to the Lord all merit and all righteousness, and all possible
as well as all real redemption, &c. As the author, however,
on account of his absence cannot defend himself orally, and
as I am not yet very well acquainted with his writings, the
whole of which I have not yet seen, I consider it a Christian
duty not scornfully to reject what I have not properly ex
amined.
"It is true that in my "Clerical News" (Preste-Tidningar)
for April 1768, I gave the general public some information
about the Apocalypsis Revelata ; yet I was neither then nor
am I now prepared to give a circumstantial account of it,
free from all mistakes. I have seen that the great Ernesti38
has been too hasty in his judgment ; and I see now that
Dean Ekebom179 has not been as accurate as he ought to have
been, but attributes to Assessor Swedenborg expressions which
do not at all occur on p. 21 of the Apocalypsis. In the
edition of that work which is in my hands there is not a word
written about the ’Sacred Scripture having been hitherto badly
and perversely understood,’ but we read that ’the Apocalypse
* See "Handlingar," &c., pp. 21 to 23.
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