Apocalypse Explained - A posthumous work of Emanuel Swedenborg tr from the Original Latin by John C Ager - Rev by John Whitehead v6 (2009).pdf

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Apocalypse Explained and Other Works
Apocalypse
Explained
and
Other Works
According to the spiritual sense
in which the arcana there predicted
but heretofore concealed
are revealed
A posthumous work of
EMANUEL SWEDENBORG
Volume 6
(numbers 1029–1232)
Also containing the Shorts Works
On Divine Love and Divine Wisdom
The Athanasian Creed
Concerning the Lord and
Concerning the Holy Spirit
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
Apocalypse Explained, vol. 6
Revelation 17
Revelation 18
Revelation 19 (verses 1–10 only)
Revelation 20 (contents only)
Critical Notes
On Divine Love and Divine Wisdom
Divine Love
Divine Wisdom
Index of Scripture Passages
Index
The Athanasian Creed
Concerning the Lord and concerning the Holy Spirit
Critical Notes
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Editor’s Preface
This edition of Apocalypse Explained was translated 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 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 Ager/Whitehead
translation has not been materially altered.
Volume 6 of Apocalypse Explained concludes 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 17, 18, and the first part of 19,
breaking off after verse 10.
To round out the volume, the reviser added three other
posthumous documents: (1) On Divine Love and Divine Wisdom, a
draft version of the later published work Divine Love and Wisdom
(1763); (2) Athanasian Creed, which was first published as part of
an appendix to the Latin-English edition of Apocalypse Explained,
translated and edited by Samuel Worcester; and (3) Concerning the
Lord and Concerning the Holy Spirit (generally identified by the
Latin title De Domino ), which Worcester also published as part of
the appendix to the Latin-English Apocalypse Explained. None of
these three documents had the usual paragraph numbers which
Swedenborg consistently used in his published theological works.
However, the Swedenborg Society, London, had assigned
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paragraph numbers to these works some years ago. This volume of
the Standard Edition has added these now widely recognized
paragraph numbers to these documents.
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
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