It was now, for the first time, too, that he gave a deep consideration
to the condition of the Christian Church, revealed in otherworld
judgment to be one of spiritual devastation and impotency. To serve in
the revelation of "doctrine for a New Church" became his Divinely
appointed work. He forwent his reputation as a man of science, gave up
his assessorship, cleared his desk of everything but the Scriptures.
He beheld in the Word of God a spiritual meaning, as he did a
spiritual world in the world of phenomena. In revealing both of these
the Lord, he said, made His Second Coming. For the rest of his long
life Swedenborg gave himself with unremitting labor but with a saving
calm to this commanding cause, publishing his great Latin volumes of
Scripture interpretation and of theological teaching at Amsterdam or
London, at first anonymously, and distributing them to clergy and
universities. The titles of his principal theological works appear in
the following compilation from them. Upon his death-bed this herald of
a new day for Christianity solemnly affirmed the reality of his
experience and the reception by him of his teaching from the Lord.
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