with the internal sight, which is that of the thought, proceeding from its objects. The objects of this sight are not material, as objects in the world; but, being spiritual, they diffuse themselves to such things as are in the spiritual world; thus to the true and good spheres there, consequently to the societies which are in such spheres. As also what is flaming in the world spreads itself around to the greatest extent; so does the good sphere and its affection, in the spiritual world. SWEDENBORG, Arcana, n. 6601.

5657. [2 Cor. iv. 18.] The two worlds, the spiritual and the natural, are so distinct, as to have nothing in common with each other. Yet they are so created as to communicate, and even conjoin, by their correspondencies; the heat and light of the natural world being vivified and illustrated by influx of the heat and light of heaven. Such influx is brought down by correspondent recipients, not continuously produced by generating principles.

Id. on Divine Love, nn. 83, 88.

5662. [2 Cor. x. 1. I beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ] If a man would recommend his reli-. gion to strangers or his countrymen, should he not go about with the most winning composure, the most insinuating mildness? If he sets out with saying, that what he declares is demonstrably true, he will meet with strong opposition: and if he takes upon him to tell them that they reject his doctrine, only because it condemns their passions; that their heart has corrupted their mind; that they have only a false and presumptuous reason; he excites their contempt and resentment, and overthrows what he was for building up.

If the religion which he preaches be true, will passion and insolence add to its truth? Do you storm and rage when you say that men should be mild, patient, benevolent, just, exact in the discharge of all the duties of society? No; here every body is of your mind. Why then such virulent language to your brother, when you are preaching to him metaphysical mysteries? It is because his good sense irritates your self-love. You proudly require that your brother should submit his understanding to yours; and pride disappointed blazes into rage: hence, and hence only, arises your passion.

VOLTAIRE.

5658. [2 Cor. v. 1.] The angels themselves, who are from this or any other earth, are together with the angels of the rest of the earths; for all who are truly angels constitute one common heaven (or Grand Man of the universe). — Thus "all go to one place." Eccl. iii. 20.

This resemblance of heaven in its whole complex to One Man is from the Divine Human (Spirit) of the Lord; for from this (Spirit or Sphere) the Lord gives influx into heaven, makes it, and forms it to a likeness of Himself. Id. Arcana, nn. 1801, 10,159.

See No. 1330.

5659. [ 5.] The earnest, though confessedly got the entire sum, is yet not only a part of it, but a pledge. BOYLE'S Seraphic Love, p. 41.

See No. 1330, 1238.

5660. [2 Cor. vii. 4. I am exceeding joyful] The word here is peculiar to Paul: it occurs once more in Rom. v. 20, "I overflow with joy," &c.

5661. [ 10.] There is a repentance from good, which is to be repented of; the repentance from evil, is not to be repented of.

5665. [ 24.] JOSEPHUS considers the punishment of stripes ordained by Moses, as in the highest degree infamous; and asserts, that the free-born Israelite was obliged to submit to that most ignominious punishment, because he had been a slave to unjust gain, and thereby dishonoured his station. Deut. xxv. 3.

Antiq. b. iv. ch. viii. § 21, 23.

5676. [

iii. 5. Faith] The true faith is that the Son is like the Father and that the Son in Man is the same as in Christ.

5677.[17. Four hundred and thirty years] This Apostolic chronology is exactly concordant with the Samaritan Pentateuch. See Exod. xii. 40; the Alex. and Ald. Edit. of the Septuagint; St. AUSTIN; HOUBIGANT, and LOCKE. Also JOSEPH. l. ii. cap. 15.

The Apostle reckons from the first promise made to Abraham to the promulgation of the law in the first year after the Exodus, four hundred and thirty years divided into two epochs of 215 years each, calculated in the following

manner :

P

AUL'S Eighth Epistle.

5685. i. 17.] This spirit of wisdom and revela[tion from God, consists in his shewing us how to exalt and as it were spiritualize our natural sentiments and words; by transferring them analogically from things of this world to things divine; and by rendering things obvious and familiar, a kind of representations of those objects for which we have not as yet either proper words and ideas, or direct conceptions.

Bp. BROWNE's Divine Analogy, p. 34.

5686.[ii. 2.] It was the opinion of the Jews, that all places from earth to heaven, even the starry skies, are full of spirits.

GROTIUS, in loco. Dæmons (those spirits of the deceased that live on the lowest elastic sphere encircling our earth) are called by the Pythagoreans and Platonists, aerion genos (Grk.) an aerial

race.

See BOYLE, on the High Veneration Man's Intellect owes to God, p. 74.

HESIOD also, in his account of the golden age,' calls the departed souls of just men aerial spirits or dæmons.

When in the grave this race of men was laid,
Soon was a world of holy dæmons made,

Aerial spirits, by great Jove design'd,

To be on earth the guardians of mankind:
Invisible to mortal eyes they go,

And mark our actions good or bad below;
Th' immortal spies, with watchful care preside,
And twice ten thousand, round their charges glide:
They can reward with glory or with gold,
A power, they by divine permission hold.
COOKE's Trans. Works and Days,
b. i. l. 172.

5687. [— ii. 2.] The Vapor of Water exists at all times in the atmosphere, and is capable of bearing any known degree of cold without a total condensation. The vapor so existing is one and the same thing with steam, or vapor of 212 degrees or upwards. The utmost force such steam can exert, is equivalent to the weight of 30 inches of mercury any greater force than this, acting on vapor alone of that temperature, will condense the whole into water.This vapor, this power of the air, is probably the cause of epileptic fits, or of the possessions mentioned in the Gospels.

Beware, then, of intoxication: "experience proves that the spirit of wine (or any vinous spirit) rises much sooner into vapor than water." (DALTON's Essays, pp. 201, 207.) Above this elastic fluid stands Paradise, where all souls from our earth first assemble.

5688. It is well known, that the gas from fermenting liquors, or that obtained from lime-stone, will destroy