Apocalypse Explained - A posthumous work of Emanuel Swedenborg tr from the Original Latin by John C Ager - Rev by John Whitehead v4 (2009).pdf

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Apocalypse Explained vol 4
Apocalypse
Explained
According to the spiritual sense
in which the arcana there predicted
but heretofore concealed
are revealed
A posthumous work of
EMANUEL SWEDENBORG
Volume 4
(numbers 626–771)
Translated from the Original Latin by
John C. Ager
Revised by
John Whitehead
S TANDARD E DITION
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. To purchase the
full set of the Redesigned Standard Edition of Emanuel
Swedenborg’s works, or the available volumes of the latest
translation (the New Century Edition of the Works of
Emanuel Swedenborg), contact the Swedenborg Foundation
at 1-800-355-3222, www.swedenborg.com , or 320 North
Church Street, West Chester, Pennsylvania 19380.
Contents
Editor’s Preface
Revelation 11
Revelation 12
Critical Notes
APOCALYPSE EXPLAINED
2036
Editor’s Preface
This edition of Apocalypse Explained was translated by John C.
Ager and revised by John Whitehead. The text was electronically
scanned from the Swedenborg Foundation’s Standard Edition of
1911–1912. This process allowed the books to be completely reset
in a more readable typeface. It also allowed for updating certain
stylistic elements and for substituting contemporary spellings.
Arabic numbers have replaced the Roman numerals, and some of
the longer passages have been divided into paragraphs for greater
ease of reading. The Ager/Whitehead translation, however, has not
been materially altered.
Volume 4 of Apocalypse Explained continues Swedenborg’s verse-
by-verse exposition, or commentary, of the biblical text of the
Apocalypse, commonly known as Revelation or the Revelation of
John. This volume covers chapters 11 and 12. As was the custom in
his day, Swedenborg referred to the Psalms as the book of David,
and to the Pentateuch (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and
Deuteronomy) as the books of Moses.
As with previous printings, the bold numerals in brackets, [ 2 ],
[ 3 ], etc., indicate divisions of Swedenborg’s longer numbered
sections that were added for the convenience of the reader by J. F.
Potts in his six-volume Swedenborg Concordance (London:
Swedenborg Society, 1888–1902). The numbers in parentheses (6),
(7), etc., are divisions of the exposition by the author. Italicized
letters following a number (518 a, 518 b ) are subdivisions added by
the Latin editor, S. H. Worcester.
The critical notes were originally compiled by Worcester when he
edited the Latin text for a Latin-English edition of Apocalypse
Explained published by the Swedenborg Foundation between 1889
and 1897. These notes were used sparingly by Whitehead in this
English edition, principally in cases where some difference in
meaning is involved. All the notes, referenced by superscripts in the
text, will be found at the end of the volume.
William Ross Woofenden
Sharon, Massachusetts
APOCALYPSE EXPLAINED
2037
Revelation 11
1. And there was given to me a reed like a staff; and the angel stood
near, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and
them that worship therein.
2. And the court which is without the temple cast out, and measure it
not, for it is given to the nations, and the holy city shall they trample
down forty-two months.
3. And I will give unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a
thousand two hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.
4. These are the two olive trees and the two lamp stands standing
before the God of the earth.
5. And if anyone will hurt them, fire shall go forth out of their
mouth and shall devour their enemies; and if anyone will hurt them,
thus must he be killed.
6. These have power to shut heaven, that the rain rain not in the
days of their prophecy; and they have power over the waters to turn
them into blood, and to smite the earth with every plague as often as
they will.
7. And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that
cometh up out of the abyss shall make war with them and overcome
them and kill them.
8. And their bodies shall be upon the street of the great city which
spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was
crucified.
9. And they of the peoples and tribes and tongues and nations shall
see their bodies three days and a half, and shall not suffer their bodies to
be placed in sepulchers.
10. And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them and
shall be glad, and shall send gifts one to another, because those two
prophets tormented them that dwell upon the earth.
11. And after the three days and a half the spirit of life from God
entered into them, and they stood upon their feet, and great fear fell
upon them that beheld them.

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