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1060 APPENDIX. [Doc. 314.
and materiality of the city of God. Lavater also is wrong
(Vol. IX, p. 275), he is too sweeping with all his worlds ....
The book in which Swedenborg will be criticized is not yet
finished" (no. 635, p. 767).
1771 , September 19. (8.) " Swedenborg is really said to be
in Frankfort. I presume that he will go to Switzerland by
way of Stuttgart and Tübingen. Perhaps he will also come
to Murrhard. His matters might be mended, if he would but
purge a little all he has said, and if he would not obtrude
his hieroglyphics [his correspondences] in such a shallow manner.
Yet all he says is foolish. I am troubled at his writing in so
silly a manner. According to Swedenborg the Second Coming
of the Lord does not take place in person, but it is effected
in the Word, through a man, before whom He has revealed
Himself, and whom he has filled with His Spirit. The glory
of Jehovah is to be revealed, and all flesh shall see it (Isa. x, 3. 5).
How very presumptuous he is, thus to diminish the force of the
sense of the letter ! I have criticized somewhat the Stuttgart
review; perhaps the criticism will be appended to the book.
It is not yet finished. Perhaps I shall yet become Sweden
borg’s strongest adversary; for he is just like Semler,305 only
in a different sense ; he renders weak and volatile the full sense
of the Sacred Scripture. Time will show what there is to be
done. I am in great trouble. If he should visit me, I shall
put down the substance of our conversation. It remains true
for ever, that he has his certain department, viz. to discover
to the world the spiritual world, but in order that men may
not follow him too exclusively, the Lord permits that he should
offend thus against sound reason.
"The ten sheets about Swedenborg [Schwedische Urkunden]
will be extremely rare. They will all be sent out of the
country ; but I shall send to you as many as you want.
They will cost from 15 to 20 kreutzers a piece, " &c. (no. 636,
p. 768).
1771, December 24. (9.) " I received curious accounts from
Swedenborg. He has conversed both with Bengel183 and with
Fricker.306 Both, he says, are well off. Fricker it seems
opposed him. Swedenborg says that Fricker is constantly
with me, that he inserts himself into my ideas. Swedenborg
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