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838 SWEDENBORG’S WRITINGS. [Doc. 310.
its identity with one of the missing volumes of the “Memorabilia”
was not at first recognized.
To this circumstance is due the mistake, into which several who
have since examined the Swedenborg MSS. , fell in supposing that
"Codices 2 and 3," i. e. the two volumes of the "Memorabilia,” which
had been "borrowed by Wadström," were still missing ; although at
least one of these codices was then in the library under a different
name.
Respecting the place which these two codices occupy among the
writings of Swedenborg, see Document 313, nos. 93, 96, and 98.
"Codex 4.- Index Biblicus Veteris Testamenti. "
This is one of the "five posthumous codices," which Dr. Im. Tafel,
as he informs us,* combined into one general " Index Biblicus;
" the
publication of which he commenced in 1859. The other codices are
nos. 5, 39, 40, and 41 :
Codices 40 and 41 contain an Index, or rather a Concordance,
of the historical books of the Old Testament, where the passages
of Scripture are given without an explanation of their spiritual sense.
For further particulars respecting this Index, see Document 313 , no . 83.
Codex 4, which is now under consideration, contains an Index
to the prophetical writings, the Psalms, the Book of Job, the
Apocalypse, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy, with a
partial explanation of the spiritual sense of the quotations from the
Prophets. For further particulars respecting this Index, see Docu
ment 313, no. 91.
Codex 5 is a Concordance of Bible passages from the New
Testament, without any explanation of their spiritual sense. For
further particulars, see Document 313, no. 92.
Codex 39 contains the Proper Names which occur in the whole
of the Sacred Scripture; but only those which are quoted from the
prophets are explained as to their spiritual meaning. For further
particulars, see Document 313, no. 90.
Of the general "Index Biblicus" composed of these five codices,
to which was added their spiritual signification as given in the
remaining theological works of Swedenborg, Dr. Im. Tafel published
three volumes, as far as the beginning of letter D. After his death
in 1863, Dr. A. Kahl was requested by the Swedenborg Society of
London to see through the press the remaining portion of Codex 4,
which was published in 1868 as the fourth and concluding volume
* See preface to Vol. I of " Emanuelis Swedenborgii Index Biblicus,”
Tübingen, 1859.
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