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964 [ Doc. 313.
SWEDENBORG’S WRITINGS.
following considerations. First, on p. 674 of the photo-lithographed
Bible, Daniel v, 29, we read, " See the note to reliquiæ," (vide not.
ad "RELIQUIA"). On turning to the article in question in the Index
Biblicus, no. 91 , we find there a most apposite explanation of
Daniel v, 15-19. From this then it would appear as if the second
series of the marginal notes to the prophets was written simulta
neously with Index, no. 91 ; and from this it follows also that by
knowing the date of the composition of Index, no. 91 , we are able
to determine that of the later or second series of marginal notes to
the prophets. Secondly, by turning to p. 423 of the Index, no. 91 ,
(Dr. Kahl’s edition) we find there under the head of "mare, the sea"
the following passage : " A tumult is coming, and not the shouting
of the mountains, signifies an insurrection of the faithless in the
ultimate heaven, which may be compared to a tumult of the sea,
concerning which see what appeared to me in 1747, October 9;
Ezek. vii, 7." The vision in question Swedenborg described in the
"Spiritual Diary," no. 243, which is without date, and therefore
may have taken place on October 9, although it is intermediate
between no. 242, which is dated November 6, 1747, and no. 244,
which bears the date of November 12. As the preparation of
the marginal notes to the prophets and of Index, no. 91, was,
however, carried on simultaneously by the author, or as these notes
were written not very much in advance of the Index, it follows that
the marginal notes to Ezekiel were prepared some time in September
or October, 1747, and the marginal notes to the first six chapters
of Isaiah some time in August or September, 1747. Thirdly, on
p. 634 of the photo-lithographed Bible, opposite verses 20 and 21
of Ezekiel xxiv, we read, "while writing in 1747, on the 25th of
[September] old style," (cum scribens, 1747, 25-——, st. v.) The
name of the month is unfortunately cut off here. But from the
fact that a passage from Ezekiel vii, was entered by Swedenborg
in his Index Biblicus, on Oct. 9, 1747 ; and from the fact that the
composition of the marginal notes no doubt preceded that of the
Index some little time, we consider ourselves authorized in supplying
the month "September" in the above passage.—All this then seems
to settle pretty accurately the date when the above notes to the
prophets were penned by the author.
1746 and 1748. (90.) Nomina Virorum, Terrarum, Regnorum,
Urbium in Scriptura Sacra (Names of Men, Countries,
Kingdoms, and Towns in the Sacred Scripture), in MS.,
pp. 275, oblong folio.
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