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348 [Doc. 245.
TRIAL AT GOTTENBURG.
the gymnasium into an entire theological system according to
the doctrine of Assessor Swedenborg and his new church.
"2. Those which are intended as an explanation of the
history of the Lord’s passion.
"It does not require a long examinaton before you recog
nize in these dictata the style and terminology of Assessor
Swedenborg.
"It is well known that Sacred Scripture is the source of
religion and of faith, or the fountain whence we must deduce
all our knowledge of religion, and our doctrine of salvation.
If this principle or this source is badly explained, there must
necessarily arise thence a perverted religion and false doctrine.
This also, as is well-known, is the principal source of all
heresies. Besides, it is also known that Assessor Swedenborg
has adopted an entirely different foundation for the explanation of
the Sacred Scripture, from the one accepted by the Evangelical
church; and which by the Lord’s command must be accepted
without contradiction. The Assessor bases his whole expla
nation of the Scripture on a spiritual sense, and upon his
so-called correspondences. These, again, are said to rest on
his immediate revelations, or on his oft repeated and quoted
’
Audita et Visa e Cœlo’ (things heard and seen from heaven).
"Dr. Beyer declares that Divine inspiration is an influx
of Divine Truth through the heavens into the world, wherefore
this also has a triple sense, a celestial, a spiritual and a natural.
These senses of the Word, he says, are above the human
rational, because man’s spirit is an organized substance, just
as the body is ; which human rational is made up of the ap
pearances and fallacies of the external senses, &c.
"These significations in the Word, he says, no man is
able to understand who does not know the science of corre
spondences, because the Word is written by mere correspon
dences. Because the Lord spoke from His Divine nature or
(N. B.) the Father, He spoke by correspondences.
"O. EKEBOM,
"Th. Doct. and Dean of Gottenburg.
"Gottenburg, February 12, 1770. "
A week before Drs. Beyer and Ekebom delivered their
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