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THE

APOCALYPSE REVEALED,

WHEREIN ARE DISCLOSED THE

ARCANA THERE FORETOLD,

WHICH HAVE

HITHERTO REMAINED CONCEALED.

TRANSLATED FROM THE LATIN OF

EMANUEL SWEDENBORG.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. 1.

A NEW EDITION REVISED AND CORRECTED.

BOSTON:

PUBLISHED FOR THE BOSTON NEW CHURCH PRINTING SOCIETY,
BY OTIS CLAPP, NO. XI., SCHOOL STREET.

FREEMAN AND BOLLES, Printers..... Washington St.

mis, jame, suntley Campbell

2.24,

3 v.

1932

AUTHOR'S PREFACE.

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Nor a few have labored at the explication of the Apocalypse, but as they were unacquainted with the spiritual sense of the Word, they could not discern the arcana which it contains, seeing that these can only be unfolded by the spiritual sense: expositors have therefore formed various conjectures respecting it, in many instances applying its contents to the affairs of empires, and blending them, at the same time, with ecclesiastical matters. The Apocalypse, however, in like manner as the rest of the Word, treats not, in its spiritual sense, of mundane things, but of such as are heavenly, thus not of empires and kingdoms, but of heaven and the church.

It is to be observed that, after the last judgment, which was accomplished in the spiritual world, in the year 1757, and which forms the subject of a small treatise published in London in 1758, a new heaven was formed from among Christians, from those only, however, who admitted the Lord to be the God of heaven and earth, according to his own words in Matthew xxviii. 18; and likewise repented in the world of their evil works: from this heaven the New Church on earth, which is the New Jerusalem, descends and will continue to descend. That this Church will acknowledge the Lord only is evident from these words in the Apocalypse : "There came unto me one of the seven angels, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will show thee the bride, the Lamb's wife, and he showed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God." And in another place: "Let us be glad and rejoice, for the time of the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready; blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb" (chap. xix. 7, 9). That there will be a new heaven, and that the New Church will

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