Four Doctrines with the Nine Questions by Emanuel Swedenborg tr from the Original Latin by John Faulkner Potts (2009).pdf

Four Doctrines

with the

Nine Questions

EMANUEL SWEDENBORG

Translated from the Original Latin by

John Faulkner Potts

S TANDARD E DITION

SWEDENBORG FOUNDATION

West Chester, Pennsylvania

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

Translator’s Preface

Author’s Preface

Doctrine of the Lord

Nine Questions

Doctrine of the Holy Scripture

Doctrine of Life

Doctrine of Faith

Index

FOUR DOCTRINES

Editor’s Preface

Swedenborg was still publishing anonymously when he began

writing this series of four essays, all published in 1763. Despite this,

he inserted an extraordinary preface (q.v.) to the first of these

works, Doctrine of the Lord, in which he first listed the five small

works he had published in 1758, but omitted any mention of his

first and largest work, Arcana Coelestia, which he had published in

1749–1756. He then projected a list of works to come from his

pen that he stated he had been commanded by the Lord to publish.

The first five of these— Doctrine of the New Jerusalem concerning the

Lord, Doctrine of the New Jerusalem concerning Holy Scripture,

Doctrine of Life for the New Jerusalem from the Ten Commandments,

Doctrine of the New Jerusalem concerning Faith, Continuation

concerning the Last Judgment, and Angelic Wisdom concerning Divine

Providence —were all published in 1763, but not in the order listed.

Some of the others were never published as separate volumes.

Although the works treating the doctrines of the Lord, Scripture,

life, and faith have often been published separately in English, it

became the custom as early as 1826 to publish them together in a

single volume. This new edition of the translation by John

Faulkner Potts of Four Doctrines, which was first included in the

Standard Edition in 1915, adds after Doctrine of the Lord a short

work titled Nine Questions, based on a manuscript in the

handwriting of Thomas Hartley, consisting of portions of letters

exchanged between Hartley and Swedenborg. It was first published

in English by Robert Hindmarsh in 1785. No original manuscript

in Swedenborg’s hand has been found, and the Hartley manuscript

is now lost. For a brief account of the publication history of Four

Doctrines, see the Translator’s Preface.

The serious reader should take careful note of Potts’s decision

regarding his translation of the Latin words instaurare and

FOUR DOCTRINES

instauratio, since other translators of Standard Edition volumes

have translated these words differently. It is also critical to note that

Potts, who is also the translator of Arcana Coelestia in this Standard

Edition, coined the word “memory-knowledge” to render various

forms of the Latin words scire, scientia, and scientifica. Having made

this decision, he then felt justified in translating forms of cognoscere

and cognitio as “knowledge.” (See the Translator’s Preface to

volume 1 of Arcana Coelestia for further details.) No other English

translation has followed Potts’s rendering of these terms.

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 Potts translation has not been materially

altered.

As with previous printings, the bold numerals in brackets ([ 2 ],

[ 3 ], etc.) indicate divisions within the author’s numbered sections

that were introduced for the convenience of the reader by Potts in

his six-volume Swedenborg Concordance (London: Swedenborg

Society, 1888–1902). Footnotes in this volume not ascribed to the

translator or editor are those of Swedenborg.

William Ross Woofenden

Sharon, Massachusetts

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