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Doc. 245]. ROSÉN ON SWEDENBORG’S WRITINGS. 295
has hitherto not beenunderstood’, and this is what every one says
who ventures into its depths. Besides it is difficult for a man
possessed of the greatest learning, even though he be tho
roughly well disposed and impartial, to be assured that he has
a true insight into the Swedenborgian system. On reading
the first line of p. 275 of the Apocalypsis Revelata, where our
Assessor makes this statement, that ’the Lord by the passion
of the cross did not remove sins but bear them,’ it struck
me at once that our author contradicted altogether what is
written in John i, 29. It was only, when a long time after
wards I came across the author’s ’Doctrine of the New Jeru
salem concerning the Lord,’ that I became acquainted with
his true meaning : for there it is written on p. 23, that ’the
Lord by the passion of the cross has not removed sins,
but that He is removing them’ (
quod non abstulerit peccata,
sed auferat illa); whence it appears that Assessor Swedenborg
according to the letter does not contradict the above passage,
but respects it as a part of God’s Word. From this, how
ever, I do not desire to draw any other conclusions than that,
first, a person may easily run into error and pass a wrong
judgment, if he draw rigorous conclusions from one or two
passages taken out of their context, or which are picked up
here and there in his writings; and secondly, that according
to the Swedenborgian system the Lord has both borne, and is
removing the sins of men.
"Nevertheless, I do not go security for the whole of the
above-named system, nor for my accuracy in understanding
it; wherefore I do not venture in so hasty a manner to enter
into a criticism of the so-called ’ Swedenborgianism ;’ especial
ly as neither I nor my colleagues are under any order from
those high in authority to examine it. Still I am examining
it without any exhortation, as time and opportunity permit
me, and as long as I enjoy the advantage of having in my
hands the Assessor’s Arcana, which the Right Reverend
Bishop has lent to me ...*
"With respect to the resolutions which were brought be
fore the Consistory at its last meeting, it does seem just,
* Compare Document 227.
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