1 Johannes 2:19

Estude

       

19 Von uns sind sie ausgegangen, sie waren aber nicht von uns; denn wenn sie von uns gewesen wären, so wären sie bei uns geblieben; aber es sollte offenbar werden, daß sie nicht alle von uns sind.


This translation of the Bible was made by Leonhard Tafel, and published in 1911. Tafel was a leader of the Swedenborgian movement in Germany during the 1800's, and a leading Bible scholar. In this translation, Tafel followed the original Hebrew and Greek carefully, so as to preserve the inner layers of meaning that were explained in Swedenborg's exegetical works - also translated from Latin into German by Tafel and his sons.