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956 [Doc. 313.
SWEDENBORG’S WRITINGS.
The time at which these notes were written is determined by some
allusions to them, which are contained in the preceding work (no. 84).
On p. 196 of that work (Dr. Im. Tafel’s edition), at the close of
Jeremiah xviii, 18, we find the following words: "Concerning these
things see the annotations in the margin, (de iis vide annotata in
margine). By turning to the photo-lithographed copy of Sweden
borg’s Bible, p. 557, we find there the annotation referred to. Another
allusion to these marginal notes is on p. 222, at the end of chapter xxxii,
where these words occur : "See the notes belonging to this chapter
in the margin" (vide notas in margine ad hoc caput); these particular
notes, however, no longer exist, as there is a break in the author’s
Bible from chapter xxiii to the latter part of chapter xl.
From these allusions it appears that the author commenced the
above notes some time in December, 1746, since he wrote his explan
ation of chapter viii of Jeremiah (see no. 84 p. 196) on November 21 ,
1746. It appears also that he prepared these notes simultaneously
with the preceding work, viz. no. 84, and that on terminating that
work in chapter xxxii of Jeremiah, he carried it on in the marginal
notes as far as the Book of Lamentations. It is true that in no. 84,
after chapter xxxii, there comes a partial explanation of chapter 1,
but as this bears the date of February 9, 1747, while chapter xxiii
is already dated February 23, 1747 , the author seems to have written
it in advance of some of the other chapters.
The above then seems to constitute the first series of marginal
notes in Swedenborg’s Latin Bible, which was photo-lithographed in
1870 under the superintendence of the editor of these Documents,
from the original codex, see no. 89.
1746 and 1747. (86.) Index Biblicus Esaja, et quoque
Jeremiæ et Geneseos quoad partem (Biblical Index of
Isaiah, and a portion of Jeremiah and Genesis), in MS .
When the author entered upon the preparation of this volume, the
plan of his Index Biblicus had considerably enlarged in his mind;
for henceforth he intended to make it not only a Concordance,
but also a Dictionary of Correspondences. In the above volume
he arranged alphabetically the correspondences of the common nouns
and verbs contained in the "Explanation of Isaiah and Jeremiah”
(no. 84), and also in the marginal notes to the prophet Jeremiah
(no. 85). The correspondences of the proper nouns he entered in a
separate volume, the MS. codex, no. 39, which is no. 90 in the present
document.
After finishing his Index Biblicus to Isaiah and a part of Jeremiah,
he turned back to the beginning of the Bible, and began in a similar
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