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Doc. 313.] 1013
CHRONOLOGICAL ACCOUNT.
4. Because it is not known what eternal life is. In proportion as
the truths of life are made matters of life, in the same proportion
the truths of faith become truths of faith ; and it is not possible for
them to become such in any other way. Some things are matters of
knowledge, and not of faith."
In Johansen’s copy, also, which has furnished the text for the
printed copy, this statement occurs which is omitted in the printed
copy : "In this work is contained the Universal Theology of the
New Church, which is understood by the New Jerusalem in the
Revelation." This statement is of importance, because it shows
that it is a preparatory work for the "True Christian Religion,"
which also bears the title, "Universal Theology of the New Church."
This fact is also proved by its having been written after 1768 ;
for it contains references not only to the "Doctrine of the Lord,"
on pp. 19 and 32, and to the "Apocalypse Revealed," on pp. 8 and 55,
but also to "Conjugial Love" (which was published in 1768), on p. 46.
Concerning the place which the original MS. occupied in the
catalogue prepared by Swedenborg’s heirs (Document 304), see
Document 310, Codex 11, no. 2. This MS., according to a statement
by the amanuensis, consisted originally of 45 pages in folio ; but of
these pp. 29-32, and pp. 39 and 40 were missing at the time when
the copy was made. i. e. between 1782 and 1788.
The subjects which are treated of in the present work in the
form of aphorisms are, 1. God in general, 2. The Lord the Redeemer,
3. Redemption, 4. The Holy Spirit, 5. The Trinity. The last of
these subjects is treated at greater length than the preceding ones.
This MS. was first printed in 1840, at the expense of the Sweden
borg Society, under the following title, "Canones, seu Integra Theo
logia Nova Ecclesiæ. De Deo uno et Infinito. De Domino
Redemptore; et de Redemptione. De Spiritu Sancto. De Divina
Trinitate."
1769. (144.) Dicta Probantia Veteris et Novi Testamenti,
collecta et breviter explicata (Corroborating Passages from
the Old and New Testaments, collected and briefly
explained), in MS ., pp. 39, oblong folio.
This work consists of scriptural passages collected under doctrinal
heads. These passages, however, are collected not only from those
books of the Sacred Scripture which contain a spiritual meaning,
but also from the writings of the Apostles. In fact one of the
leading objects of Swedenborg in the present compilation seems to
have been to register the teachings of the apostles on the various
doctrinal subjects ; since under each head he first gives the passages
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