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Doc. 313.] 993
CHRONOLOGICAL ACCOUNT.
This treatise opens with a statement to the following effect, "Several
things treating of the Spiritual World were taken from this collection
and printed in the work entitled ; ’Continuation respecting the Spiri
tual World’ " (no. 119). Its contents are described in Document 310,
Codex 12, no. 3, where also additional particulars respecting the
original MS. may be found.
1761. (113) De Scriptura Sacra, seu Verbo Domini, ab
Experientia (The Sacred Scripture, or the Word of the
Lord, from experience), in MS ., about 42 pages, 8vo, in
the printed copy.
This work, together with the dissertation on the Word in the
"Apocalypse Explained," from nos. 1065-1089, seems to have
furnished some of the materials which the author made use of in
writing the work entitled "The Doctrine of the Sacred Scripture,"
which he published in Amsterdam in 1763. From the following
passage it appears that, while preparing the present work he had
also in hand those treatises which are generally known as his "Four
Leading Doctrines" (see Diarium Spirituale, Part VII, App. II,
p.17) : "The spiritual sense of the Word has been revealed by the Lord
at the present day, because the doctrine of genuine truth has now
been revealed. This doctrine is partly contained in "The Doctrine
of the New Jerusalem," and also in those treatises which are now
being made public,
" i. e. in the "Four Leading Doctrines,", which
Swedenborg was then preparing for the press.
The contents of the present work, which has not yet been
published in the English language, are as follows : 1. A representation
of the literal sense of the Word, in which is the spiritual sense ;
2. The Word interiorly is living; 3. The difference in general
between what is natural, spiritual, and celestial ; 4. The Word is
holy to its syllables and tittles ; 5. The spiritual sense of the
Word, and its natural sense ; 6. The Word and natural Theology;
the latter cannot exist without the former, from which it is derived ;
7. Nature of the spiritual sense, and of correspondences ; 8. The
Lord’s marriage with the church, which is the marriage of good and
truth in the Word ; 9. Those who have for an end splendour and
honours in the world and also in heaven, further those who have
for an end riches and gain in the world, and also those who have
for an end a reputation for learning, do not see nor find any
genuine truth in the Word ; 10. The ultimate sense of the Word,
which is the sense of the letter, by itself, corresponds to the beard
and the hair on the head of a man-angel ; 11. The wisdom of the
angels of the three heavens is from the Lord by the heavens, and
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