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Doc. 313.] 953
CHRONOLOGICAL ACCOUNT.
following order : 1. Joshua, 2. Judges, 3. Ruth, 4. The two books
of Samuel, 5. The two books of Kings, with some remarks on the
Chronicles, 6. Leviticus, 7. Numbers, 8. Deuteronomy ; in 7762 num
bers, the new numbers beginning with Volume III.
It is a matter of regret that circumstances prevented Dr. Im. Tafel
from carrying out the same arrangement in his printed edition of
the work. He commenced his edition in 1842, before the Royal
Academy of Stockholm had granted the Swedenborg Society of
London the loan of the original MS.; wherefore the Doctor was
obliged to have it copied by some friends in Stockholm. The part
he received first was a transcript of a portion of Volume III,
beginning with Joshua and extending to the Kings, and thence to
Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. As the explanation of Joshua
begins with no. 4451 , and that of Deuteronomy ends with 7762, he
seemed to be fully justified in inferring that Genesis and Exodus
would fill nos. 1 to 4450 in the same volume. He, therefore, called
the part containing an explanation of the historical books from Joshua
to the Kings, Part II of the Adversaria, and that which contains
an explanation of Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy, Part III,
reserving the term "Part I" for Genesis and Exodus. On receiving
the original MSS. from Sweden in 1847 he found that the explanation
of Genesis and Exodus fills not only nos. 1 to 4450 of Volume III
containing Joshua, &c., but that it occupies also the whole of
Volumes I and II, in each of which the numbering begins afresh.
Nevertheless, he considered the publication of the Adversaria too
far advanced, to warrant him in altering the plan which he had
hitherto followed; whence it comes that in Dr. Im. Tafel’s edition
of the Adversaria, Part I contains 2045 pages in 6 volumes, while
Part II contains only 109 ; and Part III, 367 pages.
As the references to the Adversaria continue to be made accord
ing to the plan of the original MS., we must state here that Ad
versaria, I, in the printed edition occupies Vols. 1 and 2 of Part I,
Adversaria, II, Vols. 3 and 4 of Part I, and Adversaria, III, Vols. 3
and 4 of Part I, and likewise the whole of Parts II and III.
As to the special subjects which are discussed in this work, in
addition to the explanation of the texts from Scripture, the author
himself directs our attention to some of the following:
1
Adversaria, I.
1. How spiritual things are represented in natural things, nos . 23,
114, 877 et seq.
2. The order of life in the universe, nos. 88, 130.
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