*In the small treatise already sent to you, and as well in my former writings, I do not mean a Son of God born from eternity, but a Son of God conceived and born into the world, in whom is the Divine Trinity. In the Apostles' Creed, which was the Creed of the Apostolic Church, no other Son of God is mentioned, nor is any other meant in the Evangelists, Luke i 32, 35; Matthew iii 17, xvii 5; John xx 31, John v 20, 21. But that the Nicene Council afterwards confessed a Son of God from eternity, and added still another person as God, was for the reason that they found no other way in which to dispel the heresies of Arius. It is especially in this matter that the Church of today insists that one's reason should be withdrawn into and hidden within a blind faith. That it nevertheless falls within man's comprehension, and thus within his faith, can be seen in n. 117 and also in n. 44.

*The day after Swedenborg's April 22 letter to Beyer, he wrote a further letter concerning the dispatch of copies of DE AMORE CONJUGIALI and SUMMARIA EXPOSITIO DOCTRINAE. Added to the letter was the postscript printed and translated here.