Apocalypse Revealed by Emanuel Swedenborg tr from the Original Latin by John Whitehead v2 (2009).pdf

Apocalypse Revealed

Wherein are disclosed the arcana

there foretold which have hitherto

remained concealed

EMANUEL SWEDENBORG

Volume 2

(Numbers 612–962)

Translated from the Original Latin by

John Whitehead

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

Revelation 14

Revelation 15

Revelation 16

Revelation 17

Revelation 18

Revelation 19

Revelation 20

Revelation 21

Revelation 22

Synopsis of the Memorable Relations

Index of Scripture Passages

Index

Critical Notes

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Editor’s Preface

Apocalypse Revealed is a detailed unfolding of the inner or spiritual

sense of the book of Revelation. This is the first of Swedenborg’s

later works to which he appended so-called “memorable relations,”

which are descriptions of otherworld events he witnessed. In 1765

he had stopped writing in his Spiritual Diary —a work which

contains much similar material—and now in this 1766 work (and

all of his subsequent publications) he included accounts of such

happenings. In a letter written to his friend Dr. Gabriel Beyer in

April 1766 he recommended that the doctor read these passages

first.

This is the last work that Swedenborg published anonymously.

Unlike his earlier work, Apocalypse Explained, published

posthumously, this one is openly addressed to the Christian world,

and thus marks an apparently new attitude on Swedenborg’s part as

to where the new church was to have its origin.

This present edition was translated from the Latin by John

Whitehead. The text was electronically scanned from the

Swedenborg Foundation’s Standard Edition. This 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 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,

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 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

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personal library. The reader will note that the archaic language of

the 1611 King James Bible, commonly called the Authorized

Version, has for the most part 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 would be desirable to update this language, these

citations appear so frequently that changing them throughout the

entire work would have required a major revision.

Volume 2 of Apocalypse Revealed continues Swedenborg’s verse-

by-verse explanation, or commentary, of the biblical text of the

Apocalypse, commonly known as the book of Revelation or the

Revelation of John. This volume covers chapters 14 through 22. 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.

Numbers indicating the paragraph subdivisions used in John

Faulkner Potts’ six-volume Swedenborg Concordance (London:

Swedenborg Society, 1888–1902) are inserted in this American

edition for the first time. They appear in bracketed boldface type at

the beginning of paragraphs. 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. Critical 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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