SOURCE: Rose, Jonathan S. “Similes in Emanuel Swedenborg's Vera Christiana Religio (1771)” In Acta Conventus Neo-Latini Hafniensis: Proceedings of the Eighth International Congress of Neo-Latin Studies, Copenhagen 12-17 August 1991, edited by Ann Moss et al., pp. 869-74. Binghampton, N.Y.: Medieval and Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1994.
In this essay, originally delivered as a lecture in 1991, Rose analyzes the complex or Homeric similes used by Swedenborg in his poetical-informative narrative account of his spiritual experience, Vera Christiana Religio. This use of imagery, according to Rose, sets the work apart from Swedenborg's other religious writings.
