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Doc. 313.] 1001
CHRONOLOGICAL ACCOUNT.
of the tenth verse of chapter xix. This, therefore, is an occasion
where Swedenborg, by the elaboration of one work, was evidently
prepared for writing another, and where, in the second work, he
has particularized the teachings of the first.
The year 1765, during which Swedenborg was engaged upon the
"Apocalypse Revealed," marks a new period in his theological
writings also in this respect, that during it he ceased entering his
spiritual experiences in his Memorabilia or "Spiritual Diary," and
began to present them in the attractive form of those memorable
relations which are appended to each of the chapters of the work
under notice ; and which he introduced into all the works which he
published during the remainder of his life. The last date in his "Spiri
tual Diary," on the last page in the MS., is April 29, 1765.
Swedenborg must have entered upon the preparation of the "Apo
calypse Revealed" soon after his return to Sweden in 1764. He
arrived there, as we have seen, in August. In the beginning of the
summer of 1765, he started again for Holland via Gottenburg, where
he made the acquaintance of Dr. Beyer, and where that memorable
event occurred, which is related in Document 280. On October 1 ,
he wrote to Dr. Beyer from Amsterdam, "As an opportunity offers,
I make use of it to send you the beginning of the ’Apocalypse
Revealed’ so far as it is printed" (see Document 221). On April 8,
1766, he writes, "I have at last brought the Book of Revelation to
a close," and again "I am now going from this place to England,
where some noise is probably being made on account of the bishops
of England being somewhat severely treated in the memorable relations ;
yet necessity required it," (Document 223). From England he de
parted for Stockholm towards the end of August, as appears from
Documents 227 and 229, and he arrived in that town on September 8
(see Document 230).
A long and on the whole satisfactory review of this work was
printed in Dr. J. A. Ernesti’s Neue Theologische Bibliothek for
1766, no. 8; the greater part of this Dr. J. Rosén translated into
Swedish, and published in the April number of his Preste-Tidningar
(Clerical News) for 1768, with notes. The publication of this review
was the cause of his difficulty with the Consistory of Gottenburg,
of which a thorough account is given in Document 245.
This work was translated into English by Dr. Tucker of Hull,
and printed in 1791 at the expense of the Manchester Printing
Society. It was subsequently translated into the Swedish, German,
and French languages.
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