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Doc. 314. ] SWEDENBORG AND ETINGER. 1053
no. 7 ; and, accordingly, when I shall have heard, that what
I have now written, though too long for a letter, yet, con
sidering the importance of the matter, too short, has not
displeased you, though in all the points I may not have given
.
full satisfaction, I shall count it not a very small gain.
"Since Doctor Rosén, who is at Stockholm, and myself,
have not in express terms renounced to the King the Sweden
borgian doctrines, our affair is to be brought before the Council
of State, where it is to be further investigated and judged.
The illustrious author, Swedenborg, wrote to me from Stock
holm as follows :-
’I know that the Lord Himself, our Saviour,
will protect His church, especially against those who are not
willing to enter by the true door into the fold, that is, into
heaven, and who are called thieves and murderers : so says the
Lord Himself, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold,
but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a
robber. I am the door: by Me if any man enter in, he shall
be saved (John x. 1 , 9.) I have been told from the Lord,
through an angel from heaven, that I may securely sleep upon
my pillow during the night, by which is to be understood that
night in which the world at present lies with respect to the church.’
"But this may be enough for the present; farewell, my
dear Sir, as a man that loves the truth above all things ;
continue your affection towards me, who am likewise a wor
shipper of truth. I am,
"Your humble servant,
"GABRIEL ANDREW BEYER.22
"Gottenburg, June 15 , 1771."
To judge from Etinger’s printed remarks on Dr. Beyer’s
letter, it does not seem to have shaken his settled conviction
that Swedenborg by unfolding the spiritual sense was destroying
the letter ofthe Sacred Scripture. His strictures on Dr. Beyer’s
letter have been abundantly answered by Dr. Im. Tafel in his
German edition of the " Swedenborg Documents, " pp. 391-404.
From all that precedes it appears very clear that
Etinger was a
a man of a strong will, and that he clung
tenaciously to the principles he had once adopted. This same
tenacity he displayed in connection with his confiscated work
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