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1134 NOTES TO VOLUME II.
ordained into the ministry. In 1749 he was appointed pastor of
Ljungby, and in 1761 Dean of Gottenburg. In 1762 he was created
Doctor of Divinity by the university of Greifswalde. He died in
1784." Little else is known of him personally except his opposition
to Rosén and Beyer in the Consistory of Gottenburg. The Dean’s
seconder in the organization of this persecution was an assessor
called Aurell (see Note 191), who assisted him with his knowledge
of Swedish law, and acted as informer and accuser of Drs. Beyer
and Rosén, before the ecclesiastical and civil courts of Gottenburg,
and the House of the Clergy in Stockholm. The spirit by which
Dr. Ekebom was animated against Swedenborg, and especially
against Dr. Beyer, can be best seen in subdivisions B and P of
Document 245, which contain the charges which he brought against
them before the Consistory of Gottenburg and the King of Sweden.
NOTE 180.
ARCHBISHOP MENANDER.
Bishops Menander aud Serenius, to whom Swedenborg presented
in 1766 his Apocalypsis Revelata (see Document 226), and in 1771
his Vera Christiana Religio (see Document 245 , p. 384), seem to
have been Swedenborg’s steadfast supporters during his troubles
with the Consistory of Gottenburg and the House of the Clergy
from 1768-1771. To Archbishop Menander also, who was at the
time Bishop of Abo, he addressed Document 228, where he arraigned
in forcible language the falsities of the faith of the present time.
Charles Frederic Menander was born in Stockholm in 1712 ; in 1728
he entered the university of Abo, and in 1731 that of Upsal, where
he formed a close friendship with the student Linnæus, the great
Swedish botanist, which ceased only at his death. To Menander
Linnæus usually confided all his writings before making them public;
which speaks well for the Bishop’s scientific attainments. Sweden
borg also seems to have conversed with Menander on scientific
subjects, for in the letter which he addressed to him in 1766, he
not only discoursed with him on theology and the Apocalypsis
Revelata, but also submitted to him his "Method of finding the
Longitude," which he had republished in Amsterdam in 1766. After
first serving in various capacities at the University of Upsal, he was
ordained into the ministry in 1746. From 1752 to 1757 he filled
the fourth and third professorships of theology in the university of
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