Prophets and Psalms: 301-350

This is an annotated interpretive index from Emanuel Swedenborg's *Prophets and Psalms* (1761), presenting his verse-by-verse glosses on Psalms 51 through 83. Rather than reading these Psalms as the devotional poetry of David or Israel, Swedenborg interprets them in their entirety as prophetic records of Jesus Christ's own inner spiritual experience—his anguished prayers to the Father, his combats against infernal forces ("the hells"), and his gradual unification of his Human nature with the Divine. Each Psalm passage is mapped to a stage in this cosmic drama: temptation, near-despair, confidence, deliverance, and ultimately the subjugation of hell and the institution of a new universal church. A secondary interpretive layer addresses the failure of the old Israelite church—its members who falsified truth and turned against Christ—contrasted with the saved remnant who trust in the Lord. The work reflects Swedenborg's idiosyncratic theological system in which scripture carries a hidden "internal sense" accessible only through his method of correspondence, and in which Christ's glorification (the process of making his inherited human nature fully Divine) is the central event of both cosmic and salvific history.

Prophets and Psalms: 301-350

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