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Doc. 313.] 967
CHRONOLOGICAL ACCOUNT.
Towards the close of September, 1747, he began to enter into
the present work the corespondences contained in his marginal notes
to the Prophet Ezekiel, as appears from the date, October 9, 1747,
which occurs on p. 423, (Index Biblicus, Vol. IV, edited by Dr. Kahl),
and which we thoroughly discussed in no. 89, p. 964. After that
date he seems to have gone on regularly with the work of enter
ing the contents of his marginal notes into the present volume, until
he came to chapter xxi. On reaching the end of that chapter, he
suddenly ceased giving the spiritual significations of the passages
from Scripture which he had entered. At first he seems to have
done it for convenience, so as to proceed more swiftly in the work of
compiling his concordance. At least in the article meridies, (p. 443,
Dr. Kahl’s edition) in quoting passages from chapter xxi, he repeatedly
made the mark: B[iblia] SM[idii]; i. e. he referred either his readers,
or himself to that copy of Smidius’ version of the Sacred Scripture,
which contained his marginal notes ; in the same article also, on
p. 444, (Dr. Kahl’s edition,) in quoting a passage from chapter xlvi,
he added there these words : vide notas ad V[ersionem] SM[idii],
(see the notes to the version of Smidius) ; where it is made very
plain that by the letters B. SM., which he introduced throughout
the whole of his work, whenever he quoted a passage from chapter xxi,
he intended to refer to the correspondences given in the margin of
his copy of Smidius’ Bible. These letters occur in the following
articles of the printed work, divinator (p. 38), genu (p. 208), gladius
(p. 215), ignis (p. 278), jurare (p. 333), lignum (p. 379), lumbi (p. 395),
manus (p. 418), offensio (p. 533), peccatum (p. 586), prævaricatio
(p. 647), sanguis (p. 776), spiritus (p. 852), sylva (p. 880), videre
(p. 992). The real reason, however, why Swedenborg after Ezekiel xxi,
no longer entered into his Index Biblicus the correspondences
written in the margin of his Bible, was, because he had now entered
in fulness into that higher celestial state, the opening of which he
had noticed on August 7, 1747, old style, (see no. 88, p. 961 ), and
because by virtue of his having entered into that higher state, he
was able to take a more interior view of the Sacred Scripture, and
consequently a more interior, and hence clearer view of correspondences.
We therefore hold that the correspondences contained not only in
the Adversaria, but also in the marginal notes of Swedenborg’s
Bible, and in his Index Biblicus, viz. in nos. 86, 91 , and 90, have
all been superseded by the correspondences which are contained in
the Arcana Coelestia, and in those works which he wrote simul
taneously with, and subsequently to, his Arcana Cœlestia.
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