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Doc. 313.] 951
CHONOLOGICAL ACCOUNT.
literal sense, and, full of reverence for it as the Divine Word, was
willing to subordinate to it the results of his natural investigations.
This tract, which contains a comment on the literal meaning of
the first three chapters of Genesis, was printed by Dr. Im. Tafel as
an introduction to Vol. I of the so-called Adversaria, viz. no. 82 ;
it is contained in Codex 59 of the Swedenborg MSS.
1745. (81.) De Messiah venturo in mundum, et de Regno
Dei (The Messiah about to come into the world, and
the Kingdom of God), in MS ., pp. 32, folio.
After finishing the preceding tract, (no. 80,) Swedenborg made
the following remarks, which he underscored, "But let us examine
the Scriptures, and especially for the purpose of ascertaining the
quality of the Kingdom of God, such as it is going to be; together
with other things belonging thereto. The Scriptures do not treat
of the Lord’s Kingdom only here and there, but everywhere : for
this is the end of the creation of all things, of heaven as well as of
the earth" (Adversaria, I, p. 25).
The result of the above examination of Scripture is contained in
the work which we are now considering. It consists of a collection
of Bible passages under the following heads: 1. The Messiah about
to come into the world ; 2. The Messiah who is about to come a
second time to restore the Jews ; 3. The Kingdom of God ; 4. Con
cerning Babylon. Of these passages the author drew general results,
which he wrote down on pp. 4, 5, 30.
Further particulars may be found in Document 310, Codex 38, no. 3.
1745 and 1746. (82.) Explicatio in Verbum Historicum
Veteris Testamenti (Explanation of the historical Word of
the Old Testament), in MS ., 3 volumes, folio, pp. 169.
This work is more generally known under the name of Adversaria
(Common-Place Book), which was given to it by its editor,
Dr. Im. Tafel, than it is under that by which it was designated by
the author himself. It marks the second step which Swedenborg
took in the investigation of the Divine Word. The exploration of
its merely literal sense he did not carry farther than the third
chapter of Genesis (see no. 80). After obtaining a general idea of
the Kingdom of God by his examination of Scripture as described
in no. 81 in the present document, he returned to the first chapter of
Genesis with a view of discovering there, not the creation of the
natural world, but the creation and establishment of the Kingdom
of God.
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