Apocalypse Explained - A posthumous work of Emanuel Swedenborg tr from the Original Latin by John C Ager - Rev by John Whitehead v1 (2009).pdf

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Apocalypse Explained vol 1
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 1
(numbers 1–295)
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 1
Revelation 2
Revelation 3
Revelation 4
Critical Notes
APOCALYPSE EXPLAINED
1
Editor’s Preface
Apocalypse Explained is the most extensive posthumous work of
Emanuel Swedenborg, filling five and a half volumes in this
Standard Edition. The first draft of the unfinished work, treating
the book of Revelation, chapters 1–19:10, and a brief
memorandum on chapter 20, was probably begun in 1757.
Although never published by the author, his intent to do so is
obvious, as he prepared a fair copy for the printer. On the title page
is written “London, 1759.” It contains text paragraphs 1–1229,
abruptly breaking off in the middle of an explanation of verse 10 of
chapter 19 of Revelation. (It was not until 1766 that Swedenborg
published Apocalypse Revealed, his fully rewritten and complete
work on the book of Revelation.)
Apocalypse Explained was first published in the original Latin in
four volumes (1785–1789). However, the editors of that edition
decided to add from the published work Apocalypse Revealed the
missing portion—namely, Swedenborg’s explication of the last
three and a half chapters of the book of Revelation— giving the
confusing impression that Apocalypse Explained was a completed
work. A first scholarly Latin-English edition of the work was
published in twelve volumes (1889–1897) by the American
Swedenborg Printing and Publishing Society (the former name of
the Swedenborg Foundation).
This present edition of Apocalypse Explained was translated from
the Latin by John C. Ager and revised by John Whitehead. The
text for this edition was electronically scanned from the
Foundation’s Standard Edition. This process has allowed the books
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 the
substitution of 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,
APOCALYPSE EXPLAINED
2
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 Ager-Whitehead
translation has not been materially altered.
A word needs to be said about the translation of the Scripture
passages in this work, some of which Swedenborg translated from
biblical Hebrew and Greek, others he cited from Latin Bibles in his
personal library. The reader will note that the archaic language of
the 1611 King James Bible, commonly called the Authorized
Version, has been retained in the Scripture citations in this edition.
Thus verbs will often have the suffix “-eth,” and pronoun forms
such as “thee,” “thou,” and “thine” are retained. This custom,
based on the almost universal use of the King James version at that
time, dates back to the earliest English translations of Swedenborg.
The decision was made by the early translators to follow the
familiar language of that Bible wherever it did not conflict with the
Latin of Swedenborg’s Scripture citations. Although it was clear to
the editor of this edition and his consultants that it would be highly
desirable to update this language, these citations appear so
frequently that changing them throughout the entire work would
have required a major revision.
Volume 1 of Apocalypse Explained begins 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 1 through 4. 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 John
Faulkner 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, Samuel H. Worcester. Words or phrases in
brackets are also editorial insertions into Swedenborg’s text.

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