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562 TESTIMONY OF CONTEMPORARIES. [Doc. 267.
original which the said professor sent in 1796 to a correspondent,
Bilberg] in Stockholm [see Note 119], I certify herewith.
H. BRUNSTEdt.
B.
A VISIT OF CARL JOHAN KNÖS TO FERELIUS.*
On the twelfth of August, 1784, I went with my brother
Oloff to Sköfde, where we stayed over night with the vicar
of the place, Dean Ferelius, a very genial and honourable
man, who had travelled much, and had been pastor of the
Swedish church in London. He was well acquainted with the
famous and admired Assessor Emanuel Swedenborg. About
this countryman of ours he related to us all sorts of anecdotes,
especially about his last hours, when Dean Ferelius was present
with him, and administered to him the Lord’s Supper, which
was received by the Assessor with much devotion.
Dean Ferelius’ account of Swedenborg’s last hour, gathered
and written down by myselffrom his own oral communications,
on August 12, 1784 :
1. As soon as the Dean had heard of Swedenborg’s
illness, he paid him a visit, and desired to speak with him.
After he had entered the house, he heard a kind of noise
from the interior of the room; wherefore he asked whether
therefore quite agree with Dr. Im. Tafel, that there in no ground at all
for considering this statement as historically true. He continues, “It is not
improbable that Ferelius states here a mere rumour, and that this is one
of those falsehoods which were divulged about Swedenborg by Ferelius’
colleague, Mathesius, who was at the time in London and who became his
successor ;" whose propensity for doing such things will be proved in
Division D of the present Section. "Or else," says Dr. Im. Tafel, "this
rumour may have been originated by some other thoughtless individual,
who was given to say uncommon things about uncommon men."
* This visit, during which Ferelius gave to Knös an account of Sweden
borg’s last hours, is described in Knös’s Diary, which was kindly communicated
to the Editor of these Documents, during his stay in Sweden in 1870, by
some of Knös’s descendants.
Olof Andersson Knös, the elder brother of Carl Johan Knös, was
born in 1756 ; he became lector of the Greek language at the gymnasium
of Skara in 1796; and died in 1804.
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