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Excerpt from The Gospel According to Matthew: Translated From the Original Greek, and Illustrated by Extracts From the Theological Writings of That Eminent Servant of the Lord, the Hon. Emanuel Swedenborg, Together With Notes and Observations of the Translator, Annexed to Each Chapter Word of God be perfectly distinct from its spirit or meaning, yet connected with it as that which contains and conveys is connected with the thing contained and conveyed: if there be thus some secret agreement existing between the expression or letter of the holy word and the meaning or Spirit involved in it and manifested by it and if this agreement must of necessity be supposed to be constant and invariable, Since otherwise it would be impossible to interpret the Divine language according to any fixed determinate rules or laws: then how plain is it to see further, that the only solid mode of interpretation Of the Sacred Scriptures must needs be grounded in the science or knowledge of the agreement existing between the expression and meaning of god in his holy book, in like manner as the only solid mode of interpreting the speech of man, so as to discover his meaning, is to learn first the sense and force of his language, or what ideas are meant to be conveyed by the terms in which he expresses himself. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.