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Excerpt from Emanuel Swedenborg, Vol. 2 of 2: His Life and Writings
The Scriptures dictated by God - The Text preserved in immaculate Perfection - Dr. Stanley on the Bible and the Koran - The simple but Divine Style of the Scriptures - To restore them to Human Reverence their Internal Sense is now made known-origin of the various Senses of the Word - The Literal Sense is the J ew's apprehension of the Divine Wisdom - The Literal Sense includes the Spiritual and Celestial Senses, wherefore the Word is in its fulness, holiness, and power in that Sense - Without Doctrine the Scriptures are unintelligible - True Doctrine must be drawn from the Literal Sense - How True Doctrine is to be discriminated Who can receive the Spiritual Sense - The Literal Sense a Guard against Profanation - Man is conjoined with Heaven by the Scriptures: proved by Experience - The Word in Heaven The Understanding of the Bible constitutes the Church Without the Scriptures there could be no knowledge of God, nor of Heaven or Hell - The Ancients derived their spiritual know ledge from Tradition - The Church by the Word is a centre of Light to all Nations - Why the Spiritual Sense was not made known before - Comments on Swedenborg's Doctrine - Why Jewish History was chosen as the vehicle for the Word.
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