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Doc. 314.] 1039
SWEDENBORG AND ETINGER.
fore Professor Kant assailed Wolf’s easy nominal principles in
respect to time and space, with entirely new weapons. If any
one chooses to have only bread, and not pearls, he may suit
himself. "
As to the spirit in which the Privy Council received this
declaration of Etinger, he says in his autobiography, "The
Privy Council knew very well, that the Consistory had acted
wrongly, and that it had violated the enactments of the Diet
in condemning a Prelate without an open trial (for this the
Consistory desired to avoid on account of my well-known
boldness of speech), by confiscating his book and declaring him
to be heterodox ; yet I did not think it advisable to oppose
myself too much to the Consistory. I had intended, indeed,
to defend my propositions in a public disputation at Tübingen,
but I did not like the éclat connected therewith, wherefore I
contented myself with writing another book which was to be
printed in Frankfort." Etinger gives here the titles of two new
books, which, however, he did not publish.
The next publication, in which Etinger discussed his
relation to Swedenborg, is entitled as follows: "Letter concern
ing a supposed settlement of the controversy between the
Consistory of Gottenburg and the two defenders of the Sweden
borgian doctrines, Beyer and Rosén" (Schreiben von einer
angeblichen Vermittlung des Streites zwischen dem Gottenburger
Consistorium und zwischen den beiden Verfechtern der Sweden
borgischen Lehren). In this work Etinger clearly defined his
position in respect to Swedenborg, viz. that he accepts the
things heard and seen by him in the spiritual world, but does
not accept his teaching of the internal sense, nor the science
of correspondences taught in his writings ; thinking that the
internal sense annihilates the literal sense ; when yet Sweden
borg shows clearly that the letter of the Word is the fulfil
ment of its spiritual sense. On account of this difficulty in
Etinger’s mind, Swedenborg sent him in 1768 a paper on
the internal and external senses of the Word, which con
stitutes a portion of Document 238, p. 269.
On this subject Etinger writes in the published letter
above-mentioned as follows :
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