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1054 [Doc. 314.
APPENDIX
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on the " Earthly and Heavenly Philosophy of Swedenborg ;"
for nothing daunted by repeated refusals of his applications
for a release of the confiscated works, he applied again in
the summer of 1771. This application, however, was again
indignantly refused by the government in a decree addressed
to the Consistory dated September 7, 1771 .
The last work which Etinger wrote in connection with
Swedenborg, he published through the agency of Hasenkamp,
the principal of the gymnasium at Duisburg, who gave to it
the following imposing title, which, however, did not please
Etinger: Des durch Demuth grossen Gelehrten, des Hoch
würdigen Herzogl. Würtembergischen Raths, Prälaten und Abts,
Herrn Friedrich Christoph Etingers, höchstwichtiger Unterricht
vom Hohenpriesterthum Christi zur richtigen Beurtheilung der
Nachrichten des Herrn von Swedenborg (Most important In
struction respecting the High Priesthood of Christ for a proper
understanding of the information furnished by Mr. Swedenborg,
by the Scholar great in humility, Frederic Christopher
Etinger, Councillor, Prelate, and Abbot of the Duke of
Würtemberg), Frankfort and Leipzig, 1772.
In that work (p. 47) he bears the following testimony
respecting Swedenborg, where we can trace a few of the ideas
which were furnished to him by Dr. Beyer: "Swedenborg from
his early childhood has been innocent, pious, orderly, and not
at all imaginative. Geometry, algebra, and mechanics preserved
him from all extravagances .... Diotrephes spoke violently
against John, the favourite disciple of Jesus. Need we at
all wonder at Swedenborg being so calumniated ? Satan
delights in this ; it is food for him when theologians assail
one another in such a grim fashion. You cannot necessarily
be charged with indifference by not singing praises in favour
of those who delight in branding others as heretics. I have
often cried to God while studying Wolf’s philosophy, and also
while studying Swedenborg. Yet no Elihu comes, as in the
case of Job, wherefore we shall have to wait. What is hidden
in darkness, the Lord will bring to the light."
Having given an account of all the public utterances of
Etinger on the subject of Swedenborg, we shall produce some
of his private utterances to his friends :
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