Posthumous Theological Works Volume 2

Posthumous Theological Works EMANUEL SWEDENBORG Volume 2 Translated from the Original Latin by John Whitehead STANDARD EDITION SWEDENBORG FOUNDATION West Chester, Pennsylvania © 2009 Swedenborg Foundation This version was compiled from electronic files of the Standard Edition of the Works of Emanuel Swedenborg as further edited by William Ross Woofenden. Pagination of this PDF document does not match that of the corresponding printed volumes, and any page references within this text may not be accurate. However, most if not all of the numerical references herein are not to page numbers but to Swedenborg’s section numbers, which are not affected by changes in pagination. If this work appears both separately and as part of a larger volume file, its pagination follows that of the larger volume in both cases. This version has not been proofed against the original, and occasional errors in conversion may remain. 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Contents Editor’s Preface Summaries of the Internal Sense of the Prophetical Books, the Psalms of David, and Historical Parts of the Word Introduction by E.J.E Schreck Intimations . found in other works by Emanuel Swedenborg From the author’s manuscript Table of subjects The Lord’s state of humiliation Prophetical books The Psalms of David The historical parts of the Word Scripture Confirmations of New Church Doctrine The Precepts of the Decalogue Marriage (De Conjugio) Indexes to the “Missing Treatise” on Angelic Wisdom concerning Marriage Collected Minor Works Five memorable relations Conversations with angels Justifications and good works A conversation with Calvin God the Savior, Jesus Christ Specimen and sketch of the doctrine of the New Church Theological Extracts from Swedenborg’s Lettters Answer to three questions The natural and spiritual sense of the Word The Son of God Approaching the Savior immediately The worship of the Lord and the establishment of the New Church Swedenborg, his mission, and danger of communication with spirits The Pontifex Maximus in religious matters Diseases and their cure Signification of manger and . John’s baptism Influx Gad and Asher POSTHUMOUS THEOLOGICAL WORKS 501 Editor’s Preface This second volume of Swedenborg’s Posthumous Theological Works, along with volume 1, was first published in 1914. At that time John Whitehead, the editor and translator of the two-volume set, called attention in his preface to several situations that have since changed; for instance that the full text of the marginal notes to Swedenborg’s Schmidt’s Latin Bible (1696) was not available for use in his edition. This latter omission was taken care of in another way in 1917 when The Schmidius Marginalia together with the Expository Material of the Index Biblicus of Swedenborg, translated and edited by E. E. Iungerich, was published by the Academy of the New Church. In this present edition of volume 2, the several minor works that Whitehead had appended to Last Judgment (Posthumous) in volume 1, as well as the extracts from Swedenborg’s correspondence and the brief treatise on Gad and Asher, have been moved into this volume. This was done in order to make the two volumes more nearly the same size, as two of the extensive editorial word indexes, the brief bibliography of Swedenborg’s works, and the index of Swedenborg’s works published by the American Swedenborg Printing and Publishing Society formerly found in volume 2 have been omitted, being neither accurate nor any longer relevant to today’s reader. The text for this edition was electronically scanned from the Foundation’s Standard Edition. This process has allowed the book to be completely redesigned and set in a new and more readable typeface. Certain stylistic changes have also been introduced. These include modernized spelling and punctuation as well as substituting new words for terms whose meanings have become obscure or have changed since the nineteenth century. Arabic numerals have replaced roman numerals in Bible passages, and certain capitalized words including pronouns referring to God have been lowercased to reflect contemporary usage. All these changes have been carefully made in order to make the book easier to read and use while preserving the dignity and power of the original Latin. On the whole, however, the Whitehead translation has not been materially altered. William Ross Woofenden Sharon, Massachusetts Summaries of the Internal Sense of the Prophetical Books, the Psalms, and Historical Parts of the Word 1761 Contents Introduction by E.J.E. Schreck Intimations of this little work found in other works by Emanuel Swedenborg From the author’s manuscript Table of subjects The Lord’s state of humiliation Prophetical books Isaiah Jeremiah Lamentations Ezekiel Daniel Hosea Joel Amos Obadiah Jonah Micah Nahum Habakkuk Zephaniah Haggai Zechariah Malachi The Psalms of David Historical parts of the Word Genesis SUMMARIES OF THE INTERNAL SENSE 502 Introduction to Summaries of the Internal Sense This work, which was left in manuscript by Swedenborg, appears to have been written before the year 1763, as the list of books “to be published” would indicate. It is impossible to reproduce accurately the peculiar features of the manuscript, in type, and the student is therefore referred to the phototyped edition, published by the Academy of the New Church in the year 1896. Still a description of the manuscript seems necessary for those who may not have access to the phototyped edition. The work lacks a title. In previous editions it was entitled A Summary Exposition of the Internal Sense of the Prophetical Books of the Word of the Old Testament, and also of the Psalms of David, which has been changed to the one used in this edition, suggested by Doctrine of the Sacred Scripture (n. 97). The first page of the manuscript is divided into lateral halves or columns, by a perpendicular line drawn from the top to the bottom of the page. About the middle of the first half is the list of works “to be published,” which is similar to the one embodied in Swedenborg’s preface to Doctrine of the Lord, where it is introduced with the words, “Now, pursuant to the command of the Lord, who has been revealed to me, the following works will be published.” In the lower corner of the same column is a “table of subjects.” In the second column are the references to “the Lord’s state of humiliation,” and separated from it by a considerable space are the references to the psalms. The summaries begin on the second page of the manuscript, having at their head a list of six topics. The chapters are not broken into paragraphs, but summary follows summary continuously throughout the chapter, and in this SUMMARIES OF THE INTERNAL SENSE 503 manner one or two of the marginal references frequently indicate the contents of two or more propositions, or summaries, which are given, in whole or in part, on the line. It was found impossible to reproduce this arrangement in type, and a plan was adopted for this edition, which appeared to be the nearest and best approach to the manuscript. Each summary is printed in a paragraph by itself, with the marginal references belonging to it. This plan presents the additional advantage of making reference to chapter and verse, as well as to subject, very easy. But this plan made it necessary for the editor to exercise his judgment in assigning the marginal references to each separate summary. In many cases this has resulted in a more frequent repetition of the references than actually occurs in the manuscript. Wherever, in this respect, a question may arise in the mind of the reader, recourse must be had to the original manuscript or its facsimile. Owing, presumably, to the difficulties just adverted to, the references were removed from the margin in the first Latin edition (London, 1784) and in all the English editions, and (except in the edition published in London, 1887) they were made the basis of two indexes, one of which gives the chapters and verses in their order, with the corresponding references to the subjects in the Table, while the other presents the subjects in their order, and classifies all the chapters and verses under them. These indexes are rendered unnecessary by our return to Swedenborg’s own plan. An index to the text of the summaries, however, was considered highly important and useful, and great pains have been taken in the elaboration of such a one. Owing to the succinct wording of the summaries, this index partakes largely of the nature of a concordance. The compiler has endeavored to make it also a topical index, and has arranged the entries under the respective subjects as analytically as was possible, so that it may prove of real value in the study and understanding of the sacred contents of the prophets and psalms. The preliminary Intimations of This Little Work Found in Other Works by Emanuel Swedenborg, have been gathered together for this SUMMARIES OF THE INTERNAL SENSE 504 edition, for the better appreciation of the summaries in the light of the heavenly doctrines of the new Jerusalem themselves. The Bibles principally used by Swedenborg were the Latin translation by Sebastian Schmidius originally published in Strassburg in 1696, and a later edition of the same translation, printed in parallel columns with the Hebrew text and published at Leipsic in the year 1740. The division into chapters and verses in the Hebrew-Latin edition varies in at least one instance from that of the Latin edition (see, for instance, Isaiah 15).

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