Spiritual Experiences-Word Exp. n. 353

Previous Number Next Number See Latin 

353. 7184. and, due to their inborn character, wish to go up into heaven, to this I can testify; and that they think the Kingdom of God the Messiah, which they had not believed in, belongs to them, and therefore try by vain attempts to seize it. Therefore they say here, "Let us go up to the place of which Jehovah has spoken."* [Jews] 7185. It is added that they say, "for we have sinned." They acknowledge their wicked deeds, namely, that they had been * KJV has "promised"; the Latin is "loquutus est."


This page is part of the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg

© 2000-2001 The Academy of the New Church