Emanuel Swedenborg 
White Horse 

Throughout his theological writings, Emanuel Swedenborg devotes more pages to discussing the inner, spiritual meaning of the Bible than to any other topic. In his short work ‘White Horse’, first published in 1758, he provides the spiritual theory behind the verse-by-verse analysis found in his multivolume works ‘Secrets of Heaven’ and ‘Revelation Unveiled’.



‘White Horse’ begins with a short summary of the spiritual meaning of the white horse described in Revelation 19:11. In form, what then follows is a series of statements about the inner meaning of the Bible with references to explanatory passages in ‘Secrets of Heaven’. However, when read in sequence, those statements are also a concise summary of Swedenborg’s theology of biblical interpretation.