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984 [Doc. 313.
SWEDENBORG’S WRITINGS.
A French translation of this work appeared in London in 1787
under the title, Du Dernier Jugement et de la Babylonie détruite:
Londres, de l’imprimerie du bureau typographique de la Nouvelle Église.
An English translation prepared by Mr. R. Hindmarsh was printed
at his expense in 1788.
1757-1759. (106.) Apocalypsis Explicata secundum sensum
spiritualem, ubi revelantur Arcana, quæ ibi prædicta, et hac
tenus recondita fuerunt (The Apocalypse explained accord
ing to its spiritual sense, wherein are revealed the mysteries
there foretold, which have hitherto been unknown), in MS .,
pp. 1992, four volumes, quarto.
Of this work, the most extensive that Swedenborg wrote, except the
Arcana Cœlestia, two MS. copies are in existence. Of these the first
is a rough copy of the whole work (see Document 310, Codices 27-35),
and the second is a copy written out clean for the printer (see Docu
ment 310, Codices 107-109).
On the title page of Vol. I of the second copy is written, "London,
1759," which shows that the author had intended to publish it
there in that year. Besides, we read in no. 1147, towards the close
of the whole work, "As regards myself, I can attest that for
fifteen years I have perceived manifestly that I did not think or will
anything from myself, and also that all evil and falsity flowed in
from infernal societies, and all good and truth from the Lord." As
at the time when Swedenborg wrote this, he regarded 1744 as the
year when his spiritual sight was opened (see Note 168), it follows
that he wrote the latter part of the present work in 1759. If, how
ever, the author wrote out the latter part of this work for the press
in 1759, he must have entered upon its preparation in 1757. Still
as he quotes in the earlier portions of this work very extensively
not only from the Arcana Cœlestia, but also from "Heaven and Hell,”
"The New Jerusalem and its Heavenly Doctrine," and also from
"The Last Judgment," these works must have been ready for the
press, when he commenced his explanation of the Apocalypse in 1757.
Meanwihle Swedenborg seems to have spent the whole of the
memorable year of 1757 in his quiet home in Stockholm, and in the
spring of 1758 to have left for London in order to publish there
the five treatises mentioned in no. 101. In July, 1759, he returned
to Sweden, as is proved by the conflagration in Stockholm, which
took place on July 19, 1759, and which Swedenborg predicted in
Gottenburg, a short time after his arrival there from England (see
Documents 271 and 273).
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