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990 [Doc. 313.
SWEDENBORG’S WRITINGS.
as a sequel to the "Doctrine of the Lord," which fills nos. 1111 to 1131
of the "Apocalypse Explained." It contains arguments concerning
the Lord’s Divine Humanity, drawn, 1. From common observation
and belief, 2. From reason, 3. From the Author’s experience in the
spiritual world, and 4. From Scripture. At the close is the synopsis
of a chapter on the "Holy Spirit.”
Concerning the time when the above MS. was written, and the
place which it occupies among Swedenborg’s doctrinal writings, we
obtain information in the preface, which follows: "A revelation was
made by the Lord concerning heaven and hell; concerning the Last
Judgment, viz., that it has been held ; concerning the spiritual sense
of the Word, viz., that thereby the way to salvation has been revealed ;
and concerning man’s life after death ; and this revelation was made so
fully and manifestly a year before the present time, and has been
communicated [to men], so that all who understand the Latin language
may know it; but, nevertheless, the Church does not care for this.
They wonder very much in heaven that the Church is in such a
state that it pays no regard to its very essentials, but ignores them as
matters of no consequence ; which is a sign that heavenly things do not
occupy the minds of its members, and that they are not seen by them
when they are revealed.
"All the articles are to be set forth seriatim in four treatises."
From this preface it appears that the author wrote the above
MS. a year after the printing of the Arcana Cœlestia, and of the
other five treatises which were published in London in 1758, had been
finished ; which places its composition in the latter part of 1759, after
he arrived in Stockholm from England.
It appears also that Swedenborg had then settled upon the plan
of what is known as "The four Leading Doctrines of the New
Jerusalem," which were published by him in 1763 in Amsterdam. In
these "four treatises," we learn, were to be "set forth all the articles,"
i. e. all the doctrinal subjects of which he had treated in the latter
part of the "Apocalypse Explained."
For further particulars respecting the original MS., see no. 107
above, and also Document 310, Codex 11 , no. 2.
1759 and 1760. (109.) Summaria Expositio sensus interni
Librorum Propheticorum ac Psalmorum Veteris Testamenti;
quibus adjecta sunt aliqua de Historicis Verbi (A Summary
Exposition of the internal sense of the Prophetical books
and the Psalms of the Old Testament ; to which are
added some things respecting the Historical parts of the
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