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Swedenborg and St. Paul
It was in the 18th century that Swedenborg wrote about his experiences in the spirit world or the afterlife he had had while living in this world. But, in the 4th century, somebody wrote about Paul's experiences in the spirit world or the afterlife.
The text, which is pseudepigraphal, purports to present a detailed account of a vision of Heaven and Hell experienced by Paul the Apostle; "its chief importance lies in the way it helped to shape the beliefs of ordinary Christians concerning the afterlife". (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalypse_of_Paul)
Although Swedenborg wrote in one of his books that he had seen Paul in the hell, Swedenborg's experience shared rather common traits with the Apocalypse of Paul. However, the latter described more clearly a judgment by the God:
17. And again I saw, and behold a soul which was led forward by two angels, weeping and saying: Have pity on me, just God, God the judge, for to-day is seven days since I went out of my body, and I was handed over to these two angels, and they led me through to those places, which I had never seen. And God, the just judge, saith to him: What hast thou done? for thou never didst mercy, wherefore thou wast handed over to such angels as have no mercy, and because thou didst not do uprightly, so neither did they act piously with thee in the hour of thy need. Confess therefore thy sins which thou didst commit when placed in the world. And he answered and said: Lord, I did not sin. And the Lord, the just Lord, was angered in fury when it said: I did not sin, because it lied; and God said: Dost thou think thou art still in the world? if any one of you, sinning there, conceal and hide his sin from his neighbour, here indeed nothing whatever shall be hid: for when the souls come to adore in sight of the throne, both the good works and the sins of each one are made manifest...(https://www.biblestudytools.com/history/early-church-fathers/ante-nicene/vol-9-discovered-additions/apocalypses-and-romances/vision-of-paul.html)
However, Swedenborg wrote that the evil souls of evil man would spontaneously go down to the hell so as to avoid light and love from the God in Heaven, since such evil men could not bear holy light and love from the God.
Anyway, poor, faithful, and good men should not be afraid of their death and their afterlife as Socrates and Plato claimed, since they are surly accepted in Heaven.
From the beginning, the Gospels tell that Christ Jesus said that poor and faithful men would surely enter into Heaven to receive blessings and happiness there.
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Mark 12, King James Version
17 And Jesus answering said unto them, Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's. And they marvelled at him.
18 Then come unto him the Sadducees, which say there is no resurrection; and they asked him, saying,
19 Master, Moses wrote unto us, If a man's brother die, and leave his wife behind him, and leave no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.
20 Now there were seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and dying left no seed.
21 And the second took her, and died, neither left he any seed: and the third likewise.
22 And the seven had her, and left no seed: last of all the woman died also.
23 In the resurrection therefore, when they shall rise, whose wife shall she be of them? for the seven had her to wife.
24 And Jesus answering said unto them, Do ye not therefore err, because ye know not the scriptures, neither the power of God?
25 For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but are as the angels which are in heaven.