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Doc. 313.] 963
CHRONOLOGICAL ACCOUNT.
image; and, indeed, not only in the whole series of each verse, and
in the phrases of which it consists, but also in each word; from which
the Divine nature of this prophecy is made sufficiently evident."
Afterwards he gives a minute explanation of each verse up to the
middle of chapter vii, when the notes cease. They reappear again
in Jeremiah, but the greater part of that prophet is lost. The only
chapters which are preserved, are those specified in no. 85, to which
we refer the reader. In Ezekiel the following chapters have been
preserved, viz. chapters i-xii, xxiv, xxv, xliii- xlviii ; as all these
chapters are fully provided with notes, we may conclude that the
lost portions were likewise annotated. The four following prophets,
viz. Daniel, Hosea, Joel, and Amos, which are likewise fully annotated,
are complete.
The Biblical Indexes into which the substance of these notes
was transferred, are nos. 90 and 91. The former of these contains
the proper nouns, and the latter the common nouns and verbs. By
a careful comparison of Index, no. 91, with Index, no. 86, it appears
that Swedenborg commenced the later "Index" by transferring into
it bodily the contents of the earlier work, that is, as far as the
prophets Isaiah and Jeremiah are concerned. By a further comparison
of Index, no. 91 , with the marginal notes of Isaiah, chapters i—vii,
it is made evident that the substance of these notes was not
embodied by the author in this Index. By a careful perusal of
Index, no. 91 , we find also that not all the passages quoted there
from the Prophets have their spiritual signification given, but only
those from Isaiah, Jeremiah, and from Ezekiel up to chapter xxi.
Besides, a mere cursory examination of what has been preserved of
Swedenborg’s Bible shows that all the marginal notes in the prophets
up to that chapter have been mutilated, their outside portion having
been partly cut off with a pair of scissors. As this mutilation has
not been carried any further than chapter xxi of Ezekiel, it may be
concluded that it was done by the author himself, who in this
manner indicated that these notes had served their purpose. At
first he crossed out some of these notes, as on the first and second
pages of Ezekiel, but as this seemed to deface the Bible too much,
he had recourse to the other mode.
As to the particular time, when Swedenborg prepared these
marginal notes, we have already shown that the notes to Jeremiah
were written in December 1746, and in the early part of 1747
(see no. 85). That the notes to Ezekiel and to the rest of the
prophets, were written after August 7, 1747, that is after the celestial
degree of his mind had been opened (see 88, p. 961), is proved by the
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