"P. S. In the short treatise [Brief Exposition], which I have sent you, as well as in all my former writings, I do not mean a Son of God born from eternity, but the Son of God conceived and born in the world, in whom is the Divine Trinity. In the Apostles' Creed, which was the confession of faith of the Apostolic church, no other Son of God is mentioned, nor is any other meant in the Gospels (Luke 1:32, 35; Matt. 3:17; 17:5; John 20:31; 1 John 5:20, 21). The reason, however, why the Nicene Council afterwards adopted a Son of God from eternity, and added still another Divine person, was this, that it could not discover any other expedient for expelling the erroneous doctrine of Arius; and for this reason, especially, the present church insists that reason shall be bound, and placed under obedience to a blind faith. But, that this does not transcend man's faculty of comprehension, and that he is able to see and thus to believe, may be seen in (n. 117), and afterwards in (n. 44)." * Documents Concerning Swedenborg, Vol. 2, p 276. Dated Amsterdam, April 23, 1769. The same statement is made in Swedenborg's letter to Count Hopken, Documents Concerning Swedenborg, Vol. 2, p. 281.