THE APOCALYPSE EXPLAINED
is noteworthy that this last named work was the first of his theological works to which the author attached his name, "By Emanuel Swedenborg, a Swede." But at the end of the volume he appends a "List of the Theological Works published by me," adding that they are still for sale at his printers and publishers in London. In the same style he affixed his name to the "Summary Exposition of the Doctrine of the New Church which is meant by the New Jerusalem in the Apocalypse." This was a small tract preliminary to his last important and crowning work entitled "The True Christian Religion, containing the entire theology of the New Church foretold by Daniel, chap, VII. 13, 14, and in the Apocalypse, XXI. 1, 2: by Emanuel Swedenborg, Servant of the Lord Jesus Christ." This appellation he told a friend that he had asked and received permission to affix. The original volume in Latin was published at Amsterdam in the year 1771, in a quarto of 541 pages.
This monumental work contains far more than a mere statement of the doctrine of the true Christian Church. It contains ample exposition of every particular, with confutation of all opposing doctrine. And between the chapters are Memorabilia
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