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Doc. 301.] ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. 757
fore they were to be rejected as of no account.* 2. The same
thing happened in England, where they were sent to the uni
versities, because the ecclesiastical order had rejected them.†
3. About those in Gottenburg ; Beyer,22 Rosén,45 and the
others ; although some see the greatness of God in them, others
see nothing except what is utterly worthless. 4. In Sweden
[they are looked upon in one way] by Filenius, and in a
different way altogether by others, who may perhaps be named.
5. When I read to myself the writings which I had printed,
they appeared to me vain, as long as a certain cunning and
sinister one was present, but it was different in the presence
of others. 6. The same thing took place in Sweden with him,
who is writing a literary history. Besides other instances.
5. About Etinger182 in Würtemberg, from his letter.
6. About Göttingen.‡
7. When the "Brief Exposition " was published, the angelic
heaven from the east to the west, and from the south to the
north, appeared of a deep scarlet colour with the most beautiful
flowers. This took place before myself, and before the kings
of Denmark and others.
At another time it appeared flamy, most beautiful.
8. In the spiritual world there was inscribed on all these
books : "The Lord’s Advent. " The same I also wrote by com
mand on two copies in Holland.**
* Compare "Spiritual Diary" no. 5908.
See Document 6, no. 8, and Note 38.
§ See also Document 244, p. 281.
** While the above was passing through the press, Mr. James Speirs,
the publisher of these Documents, of 36 Bloomsbury Street, London, came
into the possession of one of these identical volumes. It is a copy of the
"Summaria Expositio (Brief Exposition) Doctrina Nova Ecclesiæ," pu
blished in Amsterdam in 1769. On the inside page of the wrapper which
is bound up with the volume there is the following inscription in Sweden
borg’s own handwriting :
See Document 260.
(2513)
HIC LIBER EST ADVENTUS DOMINI, 4535)
SCRIPTUM EX MANDATO. 6895
(8427, p. 19)
(
This Book is the Lord’s Advent, written by command.)
Aformerowner of this volume as added to the above four quotations from
the Arcana Calestia a fifth from the "Apocalypse Revealed," viz. no. 626.
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