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1000 SWEDENBORG’S WRITINGS. [Doc. 313.
"Divine Love and Wisdom;" see Vol. VIII of Swedenborg’s Photo
lithographed MSS., Section II, p. 37.
For further particulars respecting the original MS., and the printed
copies of the work, see Document 310, Codex 11, no. 3.
1764-1766. (127.) Apocalypsis Revelata, in qua deteguntur
arcana quæ ibi prædicta sunt, et hactenus recondita latuerunt
(The Apocalypse Revealed , wherein are disclosed the
mysteries there foretold , which have hitherto remained
concealed), Amsterdam, 1766, pp. 629, 4to.
This work marks a new period among the Author’s writings in
this respect, that while writing it he saw clearly from the Lord the
fact that the Book of Revelation from beginning to end treats of
nothing else than the establishment of a New Church on earth which
is to be called the New Jerusalem, and which is to take the place
of the consummated Christian Church.
The doctrine which the Author set forth on this subject in the
Arcana Coelestia was of a more general kind; and on the ground
that all new churches had been hitherto established apart from the
old church and among the Gentiles, he extended in that work the
application of this principle also to the Church of the New Jerusalem
which is to succeed to the First Christian Church. In the present
work, however, he particularized his teaching by stating distinctly
that the New Jerusalem Church is to be established among the former
members of the First Christian Church ; for in no. 69 he declares
that "by the seven churches in chapters ii and iii of the Revelation
are described all who are in the Christian Church who have religion,
and of whom the New Church, which is the New Jerusalem, can be
formed."
The particular doctrine on this subject he perceived while enga
ged in writing the "Apocalypse Explained," especially while writing the
explanation of the internal sense of chapter xii ; and this doctrine
he seems to have perceived in all its clearness when in chapter xix
he came to treat of the white horse. The great distinction between
the "Apocalypse Explained," and the "Apocalypse Revealed," consists
in this, that while in the former work the doctrine of the internal sense
is applied to the church universal, in the latter it is treated exclusively
in its bearing on the New Jerusalem Church, and the relation it occupies
in respect to the consummated Christian Church. This is the reason why
the Author when he saw the special signification of the Book of Revel
ation, suddenly ceased all his labours in connection with the "Apo
calypse Explained," so that this work terminates with the explanation
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