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 And see how fully the facts of history confirm, or how perfectly they agree with, what Swedenborg teaches in the passages above quoted. The Apostles knew that the Scriptures have an interior and spiritual meaning which the Jews had no perception of. When the disciples saw the Lord after his crucifixion, "then He opened their understandings that they might understand the Scriptures" (Luke xxiv, 45.) "And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, He expounded unto them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself" (v. 27),—which was a virtual declaration that all the Old Testament Scriptures contain a meaning deeper than that which the Jews saw, and which cannot be perceived until the understanding is opened. And very clearly did Paul, that prince of Apostles, see this when his understanding was opened; and very emphatically did he teach the existence of a spiritual sense in the Jewish Scriptures. To quote a single passage (we might quote many) by way of illustration: Referring, in his letter to the Corinthians, to the passage of the Israelites through the wilderness, he says:—

"Brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; and were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; and did all eat the same spiritual meat, and