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968 [Doc. 313.
SWEDENBORG’S WRITINGS.
After Swedenborg had out-grown the correspondences contained
in his marginal notes, he quickly finished his concordance to the
remaining prophets. Afterwards he took up the prophecies contained
in the following chapters of some of the historical books, viz.
Genesis xlix, Numbers xxiv, Deuteronomy xxxii and xxxiii, Judges v,
1 Samuel ii, 2 Samuel xxiii, and proceeded thence to the Psalms,
the Book of Job, the Apocalypse, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and
Deuteronomy. A concordance to all these books is contained in the
work we are now considering. Of Genesis Swedenborg did not
prepare a concordance, because he was then already at work on his
Arcana Coelestia.
As the author on October 9, 1747, had not yet proceeded be
yond Ezekiel vii, it can scarcely be assumed that he finished writing
this ponderous work before the end of the year 1747 ; especially if
we take into consideration that this was not the only work which
he had then in hand. We may therefore take it for granted that
the present work was not finished until some time after the begin
ning of 1748.
This Index is one of the four works which constitute the whole
of Swedenborg’s Index Biblicus, or of his Biblical Concordance ; the
other works are nos. 82, 90, and 92. These four works which fill
five of his MS. codices, as has been shown in Document 309, Codex 4,
were worked up by Dr. Im. Tafel into one common Index. In the
arrangement of this common Index, the editor did not retain the
chronological order in which the various books of the Holy Writ
had been taken up by Swedenborg, but he followed the order in
which these books succeed one another in the Sacred Scripture
generally. He was prevented, however, by his removal into the
other world from carrying this work beyond the letter C. After
his death, in 1868, Dr. A. Kah1807 of Lund saw the remaining portion
of the present work through the press. At first up to p. 360, he
retained the order introduced by Dr. Im. Tafel, i. e. he placed the
quotations from Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy first,
and followed them up afterwards by the Prophets, the Psalms, Job,
and the Apocalypse. From p. 261 he retained the order which
Swedenborg followed in his own MS.; i. e. he began with the
Prophets, the Psalms, Job, and the Apocalypse, and then finished with
the quotations from Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.
He did not follow, however, the example of his learned predecessor
by carefully pointing out his own emendations of the text, so that
we are not able to tell how far his edition is an improvement on
the original text.
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