Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 edition. Excerpt: ... Published by The American Swedenborg Printing And Publishing Society, organized for the purpose of Stereotyping, Printing and Publishing Uniform Evritions of the Theological Writings ofEmanuEl Swedenborg, and incorporated in the State of New York, A. D. 1850. THE BOOK OF GENESIS. 1. TLTA T the Word of the Old Testament includes arcana of heaven, and that all its contents, to every particular, regard the Lord, his lieaven, tlie church, faith, and the things relating to faith, no man can conceive who only views it from the letter. For the letter, or literal sense, suggests only such things as respect the externals of the Jewish church, wlien, nevertheless, it everyiohere contains internal things, which do not in the least appear in those externals, except in a very few cases, where the Lord revealed and unfolded them to the apostles--as that sacrifices are significative of tlie Lord--and that the land of Canaan and Jerusalem are significative of heaven, on which account they are called the lieavenly Canaan and Jerusalem--and that Paradise has a like signification. 2. Hut that all and every part of its contents, even to the most minute, not excepting tlie smallest jot and tittle, signify and involve spiritual and celestial things, is a truth to this any deeply hidden from the Christian world; in consequence of which little attention is paid to the Old Testament. This truth, however, might appear plainly from this single circumstance; that tlie Word being of the Lord, and from the Lord, could not possibly be given without containing interiorly such things as relate to heaven, to tlie church, and to faith. For, if this be denied, how can it be called the Word of the Lord, or be said to have any life in it? For wlience is its life, bu
