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Doc. 313.] 985
CHRONOLOGICAL ACCOUNT.
On examining the work before us it is easy to see that the Author
pursued two different plans in its preparation. The first plan he
followed from chapters i to xii. He was there chiefly intent on
fathoming the spiritual sense not only of the Apocalypse, but also of
a great number of parallel passages from all parts of the Old and
New Testaments ; and in doing so he brought to bear on his work
all the spiritual knowledge which he had previously acquired while
writing the Arcana Cœlestia, and especially his treatise on "Heaven
and Hell," both of which works are almost constantly referred to
throughout the whole of the explanation of the first twelve chapters.
This is, indeed, so much the case that the first part of the "Apoca
lypse Explained" may be said to have grown out of the Arcana
Cœlestia, and those works which Swedenborg published in 1758, viz.
nos. 101-105.
Upon arriving at chapter xiii Swedenborg introduced a plan
similar to that which he had previously followed in the Arcana
Cœlestia; i. e. he began collecting and reducing into a systematic form
the doctrinal statements, which are scattered throughou this explanations
of the spiritual sense of the Sacred Scripture. The first doctrinal
work, which he collected in this wise from the Arcana Cœlestia, is
"The New Jerusalem and its Heavenly Doctrine" (no. 103). There he
stated the doctrines ofthe New Jerusalem in a clear, but general form.
The Author’s object in the "Apocalypse Explained" was to expand
the general doctrinal statements contained in "The New Jerusalem
and its Heavenly Doctrine," by filling in the particulars of doctrine.
The first doctrine which he thus expanded in chapter xiii of
the present work is "Faith and Love." The particular subjects of
the "Doctrine of Faith" which he took up are, the Nature of faith
alone, nos. 786, 787, 789, 797 ; Formation of spiritual faith, no. 790 ;
Those in the faith alone Churches who yet do not falsify the Word,
no. 800 ; Nature and effect of genuine faith, no. 802 ; How man must
act in order to be in true faith, no. 803 ; The particulars of faith
of the present church examined, no. 805; Why the Lord came into
the world, no. 806 ; The Lord is not acknowledged when His Divine
Humanity is not acknowledged, no. 807 ; What is saving faith, no. 808;
Those in true faith and in spurious faith may use similar doctrinal
language, but their ideas are different, no. 810; Falsities are con
firmed from the Word by reasonings from the natural man, no. 819;
The signification of Peter, no. 820. The "Doctrine of Love" is
treated in the following manner: Nature of good works, no. 825;
Love to the Lord and love to the neighbour in the third heaven,
nos. 827, 828; Spiritual love with the angels of the second heaven,
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