12. ERRATA

In Tract No. V., p. 82, line 15 from the bottom, for "third chapter," read "second chapter."

In the present Tract, p. 13, line 5 from the bottom, erase the full stop.

p. 15, line 14 from the bottom, for "alphasts," read "alphabets."

p. 20, line 15 from the bottom, for "in both," read "in you both."

p. 65, line 3 from the bottom, for "terms" read "opposites."

—*Malum pænæ*.—The Lord has provided that evil with its remedy, or at least its check, in punishment which case the evil of punishment is remedial, or. In another sense; God is said to create evil, same principle as he is said to be angry: the Word commonly using *apparent* truths as the means of *real* truths; there being many minds which can—*real* truths, but only those which are *apparent*. 26.—The Hebrew word TEREM, which is transour version BEFORE (*antequam*), has the meaning

NONDUM, *not as yet*; which is a very common renthe word in this passage, which will therefore read

No shrub of the field was yet in the earth, and no the field had yet germinated."

36.—The *Nesama* is said to be that which man lost all; but there is a confusion of thought as to its and as to whether it pertained to the Creature or the

One writer says that, "Man was endowed with cultics: he received a *part* of Eternal Reason." This icistic. The Rabbins, says Bishop Bull, made a distinction with regard to the powers of the soul;

ubuted them into NEPHESH the *living soul*, RUACH t or *the rational soul*, and NESAMA the *inspiration* or

*flatus*, which Adam received in his creation. Hence

*ma* is said to signify some supernatural power dism and above the highest natural faculty or power in ean Alford speaks of it, in *Ephesians* iv. 23, as being in Christians "the restored and divinely informed principle of the νούν." This faculty, according to Swedenborg, is that of celestial perception, originating in the affections of the will, whereby man was enabled to contemplate, through the medium of the νούν, celestial things, and to see by correspondence things heavenly in things earthly. This faculty is to be fully restored to the Church, only in the time of the last Dispensation. It is of Wisdom, as apprehended by this faculty, that it is said, "The first man knew her not perfectly, neither shall the last find her out; for her thoughts are more than the sea, and her counsels profounder than the great deep." PAGE 39.—Animus cujusque, is est quisque. The common expression is, it is the soul which constitutes the man; but according to Scripture it is rather the spirit, as the soul properly belongs to the animal man.

PAGE 54.—I have omitted to state that the lands through which the rivers flowed, designate the corresponding regions of the human mind, the qualities of which, in the case of Havilah, are represented by gold and precious stones. The gold of that land is good, the precious stones are truths. The localities of the Nile and Euphrates, the two boundary rivers, are well known; but those of the two rivers which signified more interior truths, seem to have disappeared from the earth, like the truths themselves. In later ages the Jordan was mentioned as a boundary of Canaan: see Arcana Celestia, art. 1585, 4255. PAGE 72.—"In the day that YE eat thereof, YE shall surely die." Augustine has here followed the version of the Septuagint, in substituting the plural for the singular number; but it is not the common reading in this chapter.

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