Life of Emanuel Swedenborg: With Some Account of His WritingsW. Carter & Brother, 1866 - 246 pages |
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Page 216 - And after three days and a half the Spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them.
Page 140 - And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
Page 126 - Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.
Page 54 - Since the LORD cannot manifest Himself in person, as has been shown above (777), and yet He has foretold that He would come and establish a New Church, which is the New Jerusalem...
Page 107 - Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, Daniel, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi.
Page 140 - 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 107 - The books of the word, in the Old Testament are, the five BOOKS of MOSES, the BOOK of JOSHUA, the BOOK of JUDGES, the two BOOKS of SAMUEL, the two BOOKS of KINGS, the PSALMS of DAvID, the PROPHETS ISAIAH, JEREMIAH...
Page 61 - About the year 1770, there was a merchant in Elberfeld, with whom during seven years of my residence there I lived in close intimacy. He was a strict mystic in the purest sense. He spoke little, but what he said was like golden fruit on a. salver of silver. He would not have dared for all the world, knowingly, to have told a falsehood. This friend of mine, who has long ago left this world for a better, related to me the following tale : " His business required him to take a journey to Amsterdam,...
Page 24 - I have been called to a holy office by the Lord himself, who most graciously manifested himself in person to me his servant in the year 1745; when he opened my sight to the view of the spiritual world, and granted me the privilege of conversing with spirits and angels, which I enjoy to this day.
Page 60 - I ought to add, (M. Thiebault continues,) that though the queen laid great stress on the truth of her recital, she professed herself, at the same time, incredulous to Swedenborg's supposed conferences with the dead.