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Doc. 245.] 347
DR. EKEBOM’S DECLARATION.
II. With respect to the book called ’
New Essays.’
"The author (Doctor Gabriel A. Beyer, lector in the Royal
Gymnasium of this town) promises on the title-page an edifying
explanation of the texts for Sundays and feast days. This
explanation, however, is aranged entirely according to the
Swedenborgian method of explaining the Sacred Scripture.
"In the explanation of most texts, I can see how the
Lector has deviated entirely from the literal sense, and con
sequently from that explanation of the Gospel history which
is founded on the pure Word of God and which harmonizes with
the analogy of faith and of the Sacred Scripture, and which
from the time of Luther has been approved by the whole
Evangelical church ; and that in its stead he has so zealously
pursued a mystical, spiritual, and angelic sense, that a simple rea
der must necessarily be involved in obscurities and unintelligible
things, not knowing whether everything perhaps which the
Scripture sayr, and what he himself from childhood has read
and heard in sermons, concerning the three persons in the
godhead, concerning the doctrine of the atonement and
redemption which have been effected in Jesus Christ, concer
ning justification by faith alone, concerning the sacraments and
the last judgment, and concerning the person, offices, benefits,
miracles, &c. of the Saviour - is not all an idle tale and fic
tion ; since these doctrines, which are the very constellations
of religion, that ought to be kept constantly before the eyes,
are in these day, motley, insipid, and unworthy essays, put on
artificial and refined screws, and are placed in great jeopardy,
especially when a simple-minded man sees that every thing must
be taken in a figurative, mystical, and abstruse sense.
III. With respect to the so-called ’Dictata.
’
"These public lectures to which Dr. Beyer has directed
the attention of the students of the gymnasium, which he
dictated to them, are of two kinds:
"1. Those belonging to the so-called Collegium Theologicum
introductorium, from which it is made very evident, that his
intention has been no other than to initiate the students of
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