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DOCTOR ROEMPKE. 1141
her with the book, she had asked him what his opinion was of
Swedenborg: and to my great surprise, said she, he answered me,
he did not think Mr. Swedenborg’s experiences at all impossible. I
have been exceedingly sorry since that I did not lead him into any
conversation about this myself."
Dr. Im. Tafel adds to the above (p. 105) : "Any one who has
read Lavater’s life by Gessner will see, that towards the close of
his life his views approached the doctrines of Swedenborg. This is
proved also by his ’Fifteen letters on the Scriptural doctrine of our
reconciliation with God through Christ’ in Volume II of his posthumous
writings published in Zürich, 1801, pp. 1-108 ; likewise by the
dissertations, ’Jesus Christ ever the same, not limited by time and
space,’ &c., pp. 109-220. The above letters are dated from the
year 1793, and in them Lavater examines all the Scriptural passages,
which have a bearing on the questions, and shows that if these
passages are regarded in the proper light, none of them contains
the meaning which has been attributed to them, and which men
became gradually accustomed to see in them."
See also Note 305, on Semler.
NOTE 187.
DOCTOR MAGNUS ROEMPKE.
This gentleman, who generally supported Doctors Beyer and Rosén
in the Consistory of Gottenburg, was born in 1717 at Gottenburg,
where his father was navy surgeon . He entered the university of
Lund in 1734. In 1746 he went abroad, and in 1747 obtained his
degree of Master of Arts in the University of Rostock, where he
lectured in the philosophical department. In 1748 he was appointed
teacher in the Gymnasium at Gottenburg; and in 1750 received the
appointment of "lector" or professor of logic and natural philosophy.
In 1752 he was ordained into the ministry; in 1768 was appointed
second professor of theology in the same institution, and in 1774
first professor. In 1779 he was created a dean. He died in 1784.
By supporting Drs. Beyer and Rosén when he considered them to
be right, Roempke incurred the displeasure of Ekebom and Aurell ;
wherefore they sought to raise the charge of heterodoxy also against
him. This charge Aurell sought to fasten upon him by translating
into Swedish a dissertation on Reprobation, which Roempke delivered
in the synod of the ministers of the Diocese of Gottenburg, wherein
he thought he discovered traces of a Swedenborgian influence. Their
machinations, however, in this respect, completely failed.
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