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358 [Doc. 245.
TRIAL AT GOTTENBURG.
but I have been drawn to them by their consistency with
God’s Word. If, for instance, Doctor Luther has taken the
law in a sense that greatly astonishes Paul, it is the friend
of angels, our celebrated countryman alone, who is acquainted
with this circumstance. Still Grotius and Michaëlis interpret
Romans iii, 28 in the same sense as Swedenborg ; all of whom
are giants in learning.
"What Mosheim, a man of like celebrity, thought about
the doctrine of the Divine Trinity, he gives us sufficiently to
understand, when he, who worships three persons, is unable
to connect any thought with these expressions, and is unable
to give a definition of a person and of an essence. In a similar
manner Michaëlis, the aulic councillor, acknowledges the eter
nal birth of the Son, but is unable to find any passage from
Scripture by which to confirm it.*
"Our last synodal disputation took exception both to the
sentence of condemnation under which we are (
förkastelsedom),
and to vindictive justice (hämd-rättfardighet).
"To these views Swedenborgianism and the more enlight
ened doctrine of Christ’s satisfaction are most closely related.
This doctrine Grotius saw before Swedenborg. The Dutch
theologian also on the subject of justification entertains similar
ideas with the Swedish theologian. How was it possible for
the North to be enlightened two hundred and fifty years ago,
when a canonized blindness was of more value than the light
of the morning star?
"No visionary or dreamer has the honour to think alike
with those harbingers of light, Grotius, Mosheim, Michaëlis,
and others. Swedenborg is the man who utters ’unspeakable
words’ (appyta pyμata, 2 Cor. xii, 4) in agreement with
reason.
"No contradiction can be discovered in those dreams which
he has had during twenty-six years, if, in accomodation to the
notions of the world, it is just to call them so. Paul’s sermons
in olden times were considered foolishness. If an apostle has
been caught up into the third heaven, the possibility of strange
"He corroborated the Divinity of Jesus, and contents himself with not
controverting the rest."
† Grotius ad Corinthios v, 19, 20, 21.
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