no more interfere with this fact than | finitely above what man would be withwould our ignorance of the laws, constitution, and uses of the atmosphere debar us from its beneficent effects. Enough may be seen by every reader to enable the divine life to act, even though the symbols known be few, and the light, like that of the sun seen through densest clouds; but still as in
out revelation, as the cloudy day is above midnight darkness. But with this knowledge Nature and the Holy Word become one grand Revelation, making known to us our Father's will and purpose, and leading us on to the perfect and eternal day of his presence.-ED.]
[The following hymn, translated from the Greek by the Rev. I. M. Neale, D.D., and inserted in "Hymns, Ancient and Modern"-the hymn-book most widely used by the Church of England-affords a specimen of the early method of treating the wars of Israel. It should have been appended as a note to Chapter IX.
"WHOM RESIST, STEADFAST TO THE FAITH.
"Christian, dost thou see them
On the holy ground,
How the troops of Midian
Prowl and prowl around?
Christian, up and smite them,
Counting gain but loss;
Smite them by the merit
Of the holy cross.
"Christian, dost thou feel them,
How they work within,
Striving, tempting, luring,
Goading into sin?
Christian, never tremble;
Never be downcast;
Smite them by the virtue
Of the Lenten fast.
"Christian, dost thou hear them,
How they speak thee fair?
'Always fast and vigil?
Always watch and prayer?'
Christian, answer boldly,
'While I breathe I pray:'
Peace shall follow battle,
Night shall end in day.
"Well I know thy trouble,
O my servant true;
Thou art very weary,
I was weary too;
But that toil shall make thee
Some day all mine own,
And the end of sorrow
Shall be near my throne !"-ED.]
Aaron, breastplate of, 174, 529; answer by,
542.
Ablutions, antiquity of, Townley, 98 n.;
Lord, ib.
Accommodation of letter of Word, 118.
Adam, 247; sig. of name, Darwin, 247 n.;
O'Brien, 248 n.; Baruel, ib.; Vitringa, ib.;
Morell, ib.; Philo-Judæus, ib.; Von Behlen,
ib.; sig of, 339.
Agate, 540.
Allegory, ancients spoke in, a universal
language, Voltaire, 50 n.; Warburton, ib.;
Hutchinson, ib.; Clemens Alexandrinus,
ib.; Marsh, 66 n.; Horne, ib.; Origen, 70
n.; Augustine, ib.; More, 86 n.; Law, ib.;
Jones, 108 n.
Amalek, battle of Israel with, 127; battle
with, Origen, 129 n.
Amethyst, 541.
Analogy between sexes, Grindon, Good,
130 n.; Cory, ib.; Davis, ib.; Milton, ib.;
Croker, 135 n.; Townley, ib.
ings, 188 n.; on creation, 243 n.; on fall of
man, 248 n.
Babel, a symbol, Vaughan, tower of, 263 n.
Bacon, Lord, on mythologies, 522.
Bald-head, 81 n.
Beryl, 542.
Bible, a record of earthly events, Duke of
Argyll, 18 n.; Bishop Thirlwall, 19 n.; not
the Word of God, 35 n.; admitted by Chris-
tians to be a divine revelation, 303.
Blindness, spiritual, 384; miracle of cure
of, 359.
Body, cor. of, 78; illustrations of, symbol
of, Howard, 80 n.; Serle, ib; Roberts, 81 n.;
Moore, ib.; cor. of motions and parts of,
157; Bronze age (ED.), 246 n.; cor. of mo-
tions of, 368.
Bramble, cor. of, 219.
Brass, 253; serpent of, ib.
Bronze Age (ED.), 246 n.
Builders, wise and foolish, 234.
Bush, Prof., definition of Scripture, 33 n.,170
Ancient Word, the, 564; first chapters of Butter and honey, cor. of, 595, 597.
Genesis taken from, 565.
Animal Kingdom, correspondence of, 149,
190; birds, fishes, and reptiles, 190; the lion,
192; the horse, 188, 193; horses of fire, 198;
colored horses, 199; Pegasus, 202; mytho-
logical horses, 203.
Animals, symbolism of, 191 n.
Apostles, testimony of, to spiritual sense, 65.
Apparent and genuine truths, 112; har-
monized by true doctrine, 121; false princi-
ples confirmed by apparent truths, how,122.
Architecture, symbolic, 148 n.
Ark, 256; insufficiency of accommodation,
ib.; Dr. Pye Smith on, ib.; traditions of,
258; difficulties in the literal sense, 259; a
figure of the human mind, 261; resting on
Ararat, 262.
Assyria, signification of, 168.
Cana, in Galilee, miracle at, 285.
Canaan, land of, 69; sig. of, 363; journey
from Egypt to, 366.
Canaanites, early idea of, sig. of, 68 n.
Carbuncle, 573.
Cardinal points, sig. of, 163.
Celestial sense of the Word, 144.
Cherubim, 296 n.
Choenix, 494.
Christian Examiner on the letter of Scrip-
ture, 22 n.
Christian symbolism of middle ages, 148 n.
Chronologists, contradictory views of, as to
date of creation, 307; Chrysophrasus, 538.
Circumcision, a rep. ceremonial, 66 n.
Clouds and darkness, cor. of, 327.
Colenso, the Bible a human book, 23.
Assyria and Egypt, state of, 167; why Colors, cor. of, 170; Portal on, 170 n.; sig.
spoken of (E. S.), 169 n.
Augustine, St., on want of rule of inter-
pretation, 40 n.; on veil of Moses, 63 n.;
on allegory, 76 n.; on origin of idolatry,
51 n.; on letter and spirit, 105 n.; spiritual
truths easily seen, 113 n.; opposite mean-
of, ib.; writers of Light (Temple Bar), 172
n.; St. Pierre, 173 n.; Swedenborg, ib.
Conjunction with heaven effected by the
Word, 572, 589; effects resulting from read-
ing the Word, 573; with children, 576.
Continuous degrees, 146.
Copper, cor. of, 253.
Correspondence; illustrations of, from
various authors, 40 note; definition of, 39,
71; cor. and metaphor, 71; Swedenborg's
definitions of, 73; cor. of soul and body,
why, 75; originates in the nature of angels
and of the Lord, ib.; of the heart, 75, 81;
the eye, 75; the face, 77; of the body and
its motions, 78, 80, 157; of flesh, 81; of the
veins or kidneys, 82; of the hand, ib.; of
the foot, ib.; of the ear, 83; not a specula-
tion, 85: the only forms by which spiritual
truth from the Lord can be revealed, 85;
cor. representatives and significatives de-
fined, 87; the key of knowledge, ib.; cor.
of mountains and hills. 90; of light and
heat, 91; of treasures, ib.; of darkness, 92;
of fire, 93; of water, 95; of baptism, 98; of
water-floods, 100; of Ezekiel's vision, 102;
between earth and heaven, 106 n.; of
war, 124; of eating and drinking. 135;
of the passover, 136; of the holy supper,
137; of the animal world, 149, 190; of the
vegetable world, ib., 206; of incense, 149:
of perfumes, 160; of the cardinal points,
163; of colors, 170; of weights and meas-
ures, 176, 180; of musical instruments, 170,
182; of stringed instruments, 184; of the
harp, 185; Swedenborg on, 186; of the horn,
188; of ancient instruments, ib.; of singing
and dancing, 189; of birds, fishes, and rep-
tiles, 192; of the lion, 192; of the horse, 188,
193; of serpents, 204; of flowers, 208; of
medicinal plants, 209: of the oak, 210; of
the olive, 211; of the vine, 213; of the fig-
tree, 215; of fruit and leaves, ib.; of the
bramble, 219; of the hyssop, 224; of the
cedar, ib.; of the palm-tree, 225; of ever-
greens, 226; of leprosy, 230; of wood, ib.;
of earths and minerals, 233; of stones, ib.;
of sulphur and pitch, 237; of salt, ib.; of
sun, moon, and stars, 239; of tree of life,
295; a universal language, 321; defined,
ib.; anciently known, 322; origin of, 325;
proofs of, ib.; descent of divine truth by,
326; bowing the heavens and coming
down, ib.; opinions of writers on subject.
(See OPINIONS.)
Creation, history of, 242; and first chapters
of Genesis, Celsus, 242 n.; Lyell, ib.; Philo,
243 n.; Bodinus, 243 n.; Augustine, b.;
Middleton, Origen, ib.; Westminster Review,
ib.; Nott and Glyddon, ib.; Bunsen, 244 n.;
Honert, ib.; Kitto, ib.; Bloomfield, ib.;
Jones, ib.; Sewell, ib.; St. Cyril, 245 n.;
Philosophical Dictionary, ib.; Heringa, 246
n.; Horne, ib.; Ferguson, ib.; Eadie, ib.;
Warburton, ib.; Rentish, ib.
Creation of the world, 305; God present in
his works, ib.; no difficulty in attributing
creation to God, 306; the account in Gen-
esis not a literal history, 307; opinions of
the Fathers on this subject, ib.; contradic-
tory views of chronologists, ib.; harmony
of geology with Scripture, 308; creation
out of nothing not a doctrine of revela-
tion, 310; creation according to divine
order, ib.; the sun the instrumental cause
of creation, 311; the Lord the first great
cause, 312; the sun a concentration of the
creative rays of the divine Sun, 313; Sir
H. Davy's opinion of, ib.: connection be-
tween the Creator and his works, 314; an
image of God, 315: the invisible things of
God in creation, 316.
Cubit, 495, 497.
Cyanus, 540.
Dancing, cor. of, 189.
Darkness, cor. of, 92.
Darkness and clouds, cor. of, 327.
Day spring, n.
Day and night, 557.
Decalogue, two tables of, 515; writing on,
ib.; epitome of whole duty of man, ib.;
written on both sides, 516; how written,
517; first pair broken, why, 518; tables of
the ancients respecting, 521; second pair
of tables, 525; distinction between the
tables and the writing of them, 526.
Degrees, discrete, 144; continuous, 146; dis-
crete, nature of, 630.
Deluge, a parable, 260.
Diamond, 539.
Doctrine must be drawn from letter of
Word, 113.
Drinking, cor. of 135.
Dual nature of all things, 132.
Earths and minerals, cor. of, 233.
Eating, cor. of, 135.
Eden, 247; its position, etc., Sir W. Jones, 247
n.; Rabbi Bar Abraham, ib.; Dr. A. Clarke,
ib.; Sherwin, ib.; Newman, ib.; Bohn, ib.;
339; its trees, ib.; its situation, 340.
Egypt, sig. of, 167; and Assyria, ancient
state of, 167 n.; why spoken of, Sweden-
borg, 169 n.; idolatry of, 571 and n.; jour-
ney from to Canaan, 366.
Elisha, miracle of at Gilgal, 378; spiritual
death, what it is, 379.
Ephah, 494, 495, 496.
Epistles, testimony of, to spiritual sense,
65; difference between and the Gospels, 585.
Error of reading the Word in the same
spirit as other books, 331.
Essenes, their belief in outward letter and
inward spirit, 28 n.
Evangelists, four, ancient use of in ordi-
nation, 18; oaths administered on, ib.; held
over the head in ordination of bishops, ib.;
use of in communion service of Church of
England, ib.; Tatian's harmony of, 17 n.
Evidence required to prove divinity of
Word, 14.
Eye, cor. of, 75.
Eyes, cor. of, 356.
Ezekiel's vision of holy waters, 369.
Fall of Man, Tucker, 248 n.; Origen, ib.;
Augustine, ib.; Heylin, ib.; Horne, 249 n.;
More, ib.; Bridge, ib,; Diderot, ib.; Lamb,
254 n.; effects of, 563.
Fallacies of the senses, 114, 123.
Famine, sig. of, 379.
Feet, cor. of, 356; washing of, 357.
Fig-tree, cor. of, 215; the barren, Origen,
216 n.; French, ib.; Owen Feltham, ib.;
Serle, ib.
Fire, cor. of, 93; perpetual fire, 93 n.; a sym-
bol, Bloomfield, ib.; Lauretus, ib.; sin of
kindling sacred, Zoroaster, 95 n.; Euse.
bius, ib.; Bray, ib.; Vaux, ib.; Morheim,
ib.; Channing, ib.
First, middle, and end in all things, 143.
Flesh, cor. of, 81.
Flood, 255; not universal, 256; traditions
referring to, 258; a parable, 260.
Rev. J. Williams on, 283; Swedenborg's
definition of, 283; Hindmarsh on, 284.
Grand man, position of inhabitants of this
earth in, 589.
Groves, sig. of, 511.
Hailstones, cor. of, 329.
Hand, cor. of, 75.
Hands, cor. of, 355.
Heat and light, cor. of, 91.
Heavens and earth, cor. of, 332.
"He that was, and is, and is to come."
Heraldry, symbolism of, Lord Lindsay,
170 n.
Holloway (letter and spirit) Christ every-
where in Scripture, 27 n.; on origin of
idolatry, 51 n.; on rituals of the law, 64 n.;
on creation, 245 n.
Holy supper, sig. of, 137.
Holy waters, Ezekiel's vision of, 369.
Homer, 494, 499.
Honey, the Word compared to, 333; cor. of,
595, 597.
Horne, on the spiritual sense of the Psalms,
37 n.; liable to abuse, 88 n.; on the Psalms
and history of David, 264 n.
Flowers, cor. of, 208; language of, ib. Human body, cor. of motions of, 368; cor. of.
Foursquare, sig. of, 501.
Frankincense, cor. of, 646.
Freemasonry, symbols of, 148 n.
Furlong, sig. of, 495.
Gates of holy city, 164; cor. of, 555; the
Lord, the true gate, 556.
Genuine and apparent truths, 112.
Geology, harmony of with Scripture, 308.
Gerah, 493.
Glorification of the Lord's human, 154; rep-
resented by the sacrifices in the Israelitish
worship, 274.
God, ancient opinions respecting, in Egypt,
Serle, 141 n.; Plato, ib.; Heraclitus, ib.;
Jones, 442 n.; names of, Hermes, 161 n.;
Holloway, 162 n.; Jerome, ib.; St. Ignatius,
ib.; Swedenborg, ib.; cor of, 554, 644.
God, speaking to man's will and intellect,
332.
Gold, color of, 170 n.; cor. of, 236, 554, 644.
Golden age, 235.
635; physiology of, 636; the head and hair,
ib.; Nazariteship, 638; Samson, his rep.
character, 639.
Human race, mythological account of ori-
gin of, 150 n.
Human style of writers of the Word pre-
pared by God, 109 n.
Hyssop, cor. of, 224.
Ideas flow into expressions, 34.
Idolatry, origin of, L'Abbé Bazin, 50 n.;
Voltaire, 51 n.; Holloway, ib.; Grote, ib.;
Taylor's Iamblichus, ib.; St. Austin, ib.;
Warburton, ib.; Servius, ib; Cudworth, ib.,
52 n.; Ellis, 51 n.; Pemble, 52 n.; Orange,
ib., 239; origin of, 323.
Imagery, 72.
Influx defined, 78.
Inspiration of two kinds, plenary and sec-
ondary, 15; comparison of orthodox and
true estimates of, 16; low estimate of, by
Dr. Palfrey, 19; McLellan, ib.; Dr. David-
son, ib.; Bp. Thirlwall, ib. note; Dewey, 20;
Prof. Andrews Norton, 24; Newman, 22 n.;
Swains on, ib.; Colenso, 23.
Instruments of music, ancient, 184 n.
Internal and external of the Word consti-
tute one series, 39.
Israelites, deliverance of, a spiritual nar-
rative, 61, 64 n.; inconsistencies in num-
bers of, 175.
Gospels, position of at council of Ephesus,
18 n.; lights carried before them in East-
ern churches, ib.; literally true, but rep-
resentative in every particular, 279: para-
bles and miracles of, 62, 279; Clowes on
parables, 280; frequently in a series, ib.;
miracles, 281; Origen's opinion of, 282 n.; | Jasher, 542.
James, sig. of, 166, 286.
Jehovah, on name of, Maimonides, 142 n. ;
Serle, ib.; Druidical triad, ib.; D. H. H.
(Am. N. J. Mag.), ib.; Cudworth, ib.; Fon-
tenelle, ib.; Pythagoras, ib.; Dr. A. Clarke,
ib.; apostolic translation of, 268.
Jerome, on purity of the word, 25 n.
Jerusalem, a symbol of Christian Church,
Sherlock, 68 n.; sig. of, 550; destruction of,
609.
Jones, Rev. V., on origin of idolatry, 523.
Jones (Rev. W., Nayland), on the hidden
wisdom of Scripture, 25 n.; the world a
parable, 41 n., 42 n.; on correspondence, |
108 n.; on Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,
142 n.; on creation, 244 n.
Jude, reference to ancient mythology, 524.
Key of knowledge, 87, 593.
Keys of heaven and hell, 590.
Kidneys, or reins, 82.
Kings representative of the Lord's regal
principle, 270.
Knowledge, three degrees of, 330; mutually
strengthen each other, 331.
Knowledge, tree of, 248.
Lameness, eure of, 359.
Lead (a weight), 493.
Leprosy and its cure, 230.
Letter and spirit, ancient opinions on, Jen-
nings, 104 n.; the Therapeutæ, ib.; Origen,
105 n.; St. Augustine, ib.; Neale, ib.; Berk,
ib.; More, ib.; Hurwit, ib.; Wake, 274 n.;
opinions of a Jewish sect in Poland,
104 n.
Letter of the Word, a dead body containing
a living soul, 28 n.; truth in, 112; doc-
trine must be drawn from, 113; compared
to skin of body, Noble, 113 n.; use of, 116.
Life flows from the soul to the body; three
degrees of, 141.
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son, 159 n.; Cudworth, ib.; Polycarp, ib.;
Origen, ib.; Borlase, ib.; Porphyry, ib.;
Moore, ib.; Swedenborg, ib.; Herodotus,
160 n.; and their offerings, 642.
Mahometanism, 570; its truth for the
Word, ib.
Man a microcosm, 332.
Man born blind, miraculous cure of, 383.
Marah, waters of, 231.
Marriage, origin of, 232; sig. of, 551.
Martineau, Miss H., rejection of gospels
by, 23 n.
Measures and weights, 176, 180.
Measuring line, sig. of, 499.
"Mene, mene, tekel, upharsin," 500.
Metaphor and correspondence, Hindmarsh
on, 72.
Microcosm, 41.
Mineral kingdom, cor. of, 149.
Mingled seed, fabrics, etc., 139.
Miracles, 279; Clowes on, 281; Sweden-
borg on, 283; nature and design of, 377.
Miracles of our Lord, on, Origen, 282 n.,
288 n.; Hilary, 282 n.; John of Jerusalem,
ib., 288 n., 291 n.; Irenæus, 282 n.; Hind,
283 n.; Williams, ib.; Heber, ib.; Tracts
for Times, 289 n.
Miraculous evidences of the Lord's divin-
ity, 357.
Mirror, seeing in, Clarke, 117 n.; Maimon-
ides, ib.
Misery the consequence of sin, Brown,
119 n.; Wilson, ib.
Moon, cor. of, 239.
More, H., the law of Moses a living crea-
ture, 31 n.; the world a macrocosm, 41 n.;
on history of David, 61 n.; on symbols,
86 n.; on Adam, 88 n.; mystical sense of
names, 105 n.; on numbers, 176 n.; on the
fall, 294 n.; on the serpent, 250 n.
Moses; the veil upon his face, 63; law of,
sig. of, 268; prayer of, explained, 345.
Most ancient church, possessed no outward
Word, 563; character of its people, 567;
the origin of mythology, 568; had imme-
diate revelation, 564.
Mountains and hills, cor. of, 90, 332.
Mount Zion, why mentioned, Jerome, 90 n.
Musical instruments, sig. of, 170; descrip-
tion of, 182; stringed, 184; ancient, list of,
184 n.; harp, 185; Swedenborg on, 186;
horn, 188; ancient instruments, 188.
Myrrh, cor. of, 647.
Lord, birth and life of, 285; his temptations, Mythology, origin of, 552; Lord Bacon on,
287; the chief prophet, 291.
Lord's prayer, development in (ED.), 116 n.
Lots, casting, sig. of, 353.
Names symbolical, More, 105 n.
Love, wisdom, and life, a trinity in God and Nativity of the Lord, 643; nature of, 644.
man, 350.
Macrocosm and microcosm, 323, 330.
Magi and their gifts, 159; on the, Hutchin-
Natural forms outbirths from spiritual
causes, 54, 72; from the Lord, 89.
Natural good, its relation to spiritual good.
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