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Apocalypse Revealed
Wherein are disclosed the arcana
there foretold which have hitherto
remained concealed
EMANUEL SWEDENBORG
Volume 1
(Numbers 1–611)
Translated from the Original Latin by
John Whitehead
S
TANDARD
E
DITION
SWEDENBORG FOUNDATION
West Chester, Pennsylvania
© 2009 Swedenborg Foundation
This version was compiled from electronic files of the
Standard Edition of the Works of Emanuel Swedenborg as
further edited by William Ross Woofenden. Pagination of
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all of the numerical references herein are not to page
numbers but to Swedenborg’s section numbers, which are
not affected by changes in pagination. If this work appears
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Contents
Editor’s Preface
Author’s Preface
A Summary of the Doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church and
Religion
A Summary of the Doctrines of the Church and Religion of the
Reformed
Revelation 1
Revelation 2
Revelation 3
Revelation 4
Revelation 5
Revelation 6
Revelation 7
Revelation 8
Revelation 9
Revelation 10
Revelation 11
Revelation 12
Revelation 13
Critical Notes
APOCALYPSE REVEALED
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Editor’s Preface
Apocalypse Revealed
is a detailed unfolding of the inner or spiritual
sense of the book of Revelation. This is the first of Swedenborg’s
later works to which he appended so-called “memorable relations,”
which are descriptions of otherworld events he witnessed. In 1765
he had stopped writing in his
Spiritual Diary
—a work which
contains much similar material—and now in this 1766 work (and
all of his subsequent publications) he included accounts of such
happenings. In a letter written to his friend Dr. Gabriel Beyer in
April 1766 he recommended that the doctor read these passages
first.
This is the last work that Swedenborg published anonymously.
Unlike his incomplete treatise,
Apocalypse Explained,
written earlier
than
Apocalypse Revealed
but published posthumously, this work is
openly addressed to the Christian world, and thus marks an
apparently new attitude on Swedenborg’s part as to where the new
church was to have its origin.
This present edition was translated from the Latin by John
Whitehead. The text was electronically scanned from the
Swedenborg Foundation’s Standard Edition. This has allowed the
book to be completely redesigned and set in a new and more
readable typeface. Certain stylistic changes have also been
introduced. These include modernized spelling and punctuation as
well as the substitution of new words for terms whose meanings
have become obscure or have changed since the nineteenth century.
Arabic numerals have replaced roman numerals in Bible passages,
and certain capitalized words, including pro nouns referring to
God, have been lowercased to reflect contemporary usage. All these
changes have been carefully made in order to make the book easier
to read and use while preserving the dignity and power of the
original Latin. On the whole, however, the Whitehead translation
has not been materially altered.
A word needs to be said about the translation of the Scripture
passages in this work, some of which Swedenborg translated from
APOCALYPSE REVEALED
2
biblical Hebrew and Greek, others he cited from Latin Bibles in his
personal library. The reader will note that the archaic language of
the 1611 King James Bible, commonly called the Authorized
Version, has for the most part been retained in the Scripture
citations in this edition. Thus verbs will often have the suffix
“-eth,” and pronoun forms such as “thee,” “thou,” and “thine” are
retained. This custom, based on the almost universal use of the
King James version at that time, dates back to the earliest English
translations of Swedenborg. The decision was made by the early
translators to follow the familiar language of that Bible wherever it
did not conflict with the Latin of Swedenborg’s Scripture citations.
Although it would be desirable to update this language, these
citations appear so frequently that changing them throughout the
entire work would have required a major revision.
Volume 1 of
Apocalypse Revealed
begins Swedenborg’s verse-by-
verse explanation, or commentary, of the biblical text of the
Apocalypse, commonly known as the book of Revelation or the
Revelation of John. This volume covers chapters 1 through 13. As
was the custom in his day, Swedenborg referred to the Psalms as
the book of David, and to the Pentateuch (Genesis, Exodus,
Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy) as the books of Moses.
Numbers indicating the paragraph subdivisions used in John
Faulkner Potts’ six-volume
Swedenborg Concordance
(London:
Swedenborg Society, 1888–1902) are inserted in this American
edition for the first time. They appear in bracketed boldface type at
the beginning of paragraphs. The numbers in parentheses (6), (7),
etc., are divisions of the exposition by the author. Italicized letters
following a number (518
a,
518
b
) are subdivisions added by the
Latin editor, Samuel H. Worcester. Words or phrases in brackets
are also editorial insertions into Swedenborg’s text. Critical notes,
referenced by superscripts in the text, will be found at the end of
the volume.
William Ross Woofenden
Sharon, Massachusetts
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