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806 [Doc. 309.
SWEDENBORG’S WRITINGS.
brave all dangers." As to the mode in which some of these
MSS. , or at least copies of them, came into his hands, he says
finally on p. 190, where he speaks of himself as a traveller
from Sweden : "A traveller from Sweden had conveyed to
that Society some useful manuscripts of Swedenborg, among
which there was a volume in folio, which had been copied at
great expense ; as there was only one man in Stockholm who
was able to read the original Latin, and he charged heavily
for his work. The traveller [ C. F. Nordensköld] received this
copy from one of his friends [A. Nordensköld] who was in his
debt, and this copy partly liquidated his debt."
Concerning the printing of these MSS. we read in the
Samlingarför Philantroper," the organ of the Exegetic Society
of Stockholm, published in 1787, as follows :
"1783. Towards the close of this year a Swedish traveller
brought several MSS. of Em. Swedenborg to England, and
one of them, Clavis Hieroglyphica, &c., Mr. Tulk228 had printed
at his own expense."*
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"1784. Mr. Hindmarsh, a member of the above Society,
printed and published this year the work entitled, Sensus In
ternus Propheticus, &c."+
In 1785, finally, was commenced the printing in the original
Latin of the large work entitled Apocalypsis Explicata, at the
joint expense of Messrs. Peckitt,229 William Spence,221 George
Adams, and Robert Hindmarsh.225 In that year Vol. I was
printed ; in the following year, 1786, Vol. II ; in 1788, Vol. III ;
and in 1790, Vol. IV. Vol. IV contained also the two smaller
treatises, De Divino Amore-on the Divine Love, and De
Divina Sapientia-on the Divine Wisdom.
In the preface to the second edition of the translation of
the Apocalypsis Explicata it is stated that "the original MS.
of that work, in the author’s handwriting, was procured from
* Mr. Hindmarsh says in "Appendix 1" to his "Rise and Progress of
the New Jerusalem Church :" "This work was printed in the original Latin by
me at my own expense, from a manuscript copy received from Sweden in
1784." From this it would seem that Mr. Tulk purchased the MS. from
C. F. Nordensköld, and that Mr. Hindmarsh printed it at his own expense.
This is confirmed by Mr. Hindmarsh in the "Appendix" mentioned
above.
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