Documents Concerning the Life and Character of Emanuel Swedenborg ...Joseph Hayward, Market-Place, 1841 - 286 pages |
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Page 184 - But be not ye called Rabbi, for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren. And call no man your father upon the earth : for one is your Father, which is in heaven. Neither be ye called masters: for one is your Master, even Christ.
Page 198 - I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.
Page 225 - And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.
Page 148 - It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more shall they call them of his household?
Page 148 - Others said, These are not the words of him that hath a devil. Can a devil open the eyes of the blind?
Page 27 - From that time I began to print and publish various arcana that have been seen by me or revealed to me ; as respecting heaven and hell, the state of man after death, the true worship of God, the spiritual sense of the Word ; with many other most important matters conducive to salvation and true wisdom.
Page 47 - He possessed a sound judgment upon all occasions; he saw every thing clearly, and expressed himself well on every subject. The most solid memorials, and the best penned, at the diet of 1761, on matters of finance, were presented by him. In one of these he refuted a large work in quarto on the same subject, quoted all the corresponding passages of it, and all this in less than one sheet.
Page 49 - Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall; and when I had digged in the wall, behold a door. And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here. So I went in and saw ; and, behold, every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed upon the wall round about.
Page xv - Exposition of the Doctrine of the New Church, signified by the New Jerusalem in the Revelation.
Page 222 - Revelation of St. John.* The style of the Word consists throughout in correspondences, and thence effects an immediate communication with heaven ; but the style of these dogmatic writings is quite different, having indeed communication...