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Doc. 245.] SWEDENBORG’S REPLY TO EKEBOM. 297
that both the Dean’s opinion and my reply be printed,
as is the case with the opinions expressed by the Council,
the Courts of Appeal, and the various Departments, so that
I may institute a criminal process. Next week I intend to
set out for Paris ; in case anything of importance take
place in this matter, I may be informed of it by a letter
addressed to me in Paris, Care of the. Ambassador, Count
Gust. Phil. Creutz.193 Desiring to be remembered kindly to
my friends and patrons in Gottenburg, I remain, most reverend
and most learned Doctor and Lector,
"Your most obedient servant and faithful friend,
"EM. SWEDENBORG.
"Amsterdam, April 15, 1769."
F.
EMANUEL SWEDENBORG’S REPLY TO THE OPINION EXPRESSED BY DR. OLOF
EKSBOM,179 DEAN OF GOTTENBURG, BEFORE THE CONSISTORY, ON
MARCH 22, 1769.*
Read before the Consistory on April 26, 1769.
"I have received the opinion expressed by
the Dean of Gottenburg before the Consistory on the subject
of the Doctrine of the New Church, which has been published
to the world by our Saviour Jesus Christ, through me His
servant, in the ’Doctrine of the New Jerusalem,’ and in the
’Apocalypse Revealed ;’ and as I find that the Dean’s opinion
is full of reproaches, and also here and there contains untruths,
I deem it too prolix to answer each of them separately,
especially as I perceive that they are written by a person who
does not seem to have a bridle for his tongue, nor eyes in his
forehead, to see those things which are written in these works
in conformity with God’s Word and an enlightened under
standing; such persons are described by the Lord Himself in
* The Swedish original of this Document from which the above translation
has been made, was first printed in the "Handlingar," &c., of 1769 (pp. 25
to 28). Afterwards it was reprinted as part of Letter VI of the "Samlingar
för Philantroper" for 1788. The first English translation appeared in the
"Intellectual Repository" for 1812, from which it was embodied in the
English and American editions of the " Swedenborg Documents."
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