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1 OR avvenne, nell’anno trentesimo, nel quinto giorno del quarto mese, che essendo io sopra il fiume Chebar, fra quelli ch’erano stati menati in cattività, i cieli furono aperti, ed io vidi delle visioni di Dio.

2 Nel quinto giorno di quel mese di quell’anno, ch’era il quinto della cattività del re Gioiachin,

3 la parola del Signore fu d’una maniera singolare indirizzata ad Ezechiele, figliuolo di Buzi, sacerdote, nel paese de’ Caldei, in sul fiume Chebar; e la mano del Signore fu quivi sopra lui.

4 Io adunque vidi, ed ecco un vento tempestoso, che veniva dal Settentrione, ed una grossa nuvola, ed un fuoco avviluppato, intorno al quale vi era uno splendore; e di mezzo di quel fuoco appariva come la sembianza di fin rame scintillante.

5 Di mezzo di quello ancora appariva la sembianza di quattro animali. E tale era la lor forma: aveano sembianza d’uomini;

6 ed aveano ciascuno quattro facce, e quattro ali.

7 Ed i lor piedi eran diritti, e la pianta de’ lor piedi era come la pianta del piè d’un vitello; ed erano sfavillanti, quale è il colore del rame forbito.

8 Ed aveano delle mani d’uomo di sotto alle loro ali, ne’ quattro lor lati; e tutti e quattro aveano le lor facce, e le loro ali.

9 Le loro ali si accompagnavano l’una l’altra; essi non si volgevano camminando; ciascuno camminava diritto davanti a sè.

10 Ora, quant’è alla sembianza delle lor facce, tutti e quattro aveano una faccia d’uomo, ed una faccia di leone, a destra; parimente tutti e quattro aveano una faccia di bue, e una faccia d’aquila, a sinistra.

11 E le lor facce, e le loro ali, erano divise di sopra; ciascuno avea due ali che si accompagnavano l’una l’altra, e due altre che coprivano i lor corpi.

12 E ciascun d’essi camminava diritto davanti a sè; camminavano dovunque lo spirito si moveva; mentre camminavano, non si volgevano qua e là.

13 E quant’è alla sembianza degli animali, il loro aspetto somigliava delle brace di fuoco; ardevano in vista, come fiaccole; quel fuoco andava attorno per mezzo gli animali, dava uno splendore, e del fuoco usciva un folgore.

14 E gli animali correvano, e ritornavano, come un folgore in vista.

15 E, come io ebbi veduti gli animali, ecco una ruota in terra, presso a ciascun animale, dalle quattro lor facce.

16 L’aspetto delle ruote, e il lor lavoro, era simile al color d’un grisolito; e tutte e quattro aveano una medesima sembianza; e il loro aspetto, e il lor lavoro era come se una ruota fosse stata in mezzo di un’altra ruota.

17 Quando si movevano, si movevano tutte e quattro, ciascuna dal suo lato; elleno non si volgevano qua e là, movendosi.

18 E quant’è a’ lor cerchi, erano alti spaventevolmente; e tutti e quattro erano pieni d’occhi d’ogn’intorno.

19 E quando gli animali camminavano, le ruote si movevano allato a loro; e quando gli animali si alzavano da terra, le ruote parimente si alzavano.

20 Dovunque lo spirito si moveva, si movevano anch’essi; e le ruote si alzavano allato a quelli; perciocchè lo spirito degli animali era nelle ruote.

21 Quando quelli camminavano, le ruote altresì si movevano; quando quelli si fermavano, le ruote altresì si fermavano; e quando si alzavano da terra, le ruote altresì si alzavano da terra, allato ad essi; perciocchè lo spirito degli animali era nelle ruote.

22 E la sembianza di ciò ch’era di sopra alle teste degli animali era d’una distesa del cielo, simile a cristallo in vista, molto spaventevole; ed era distesa di sopra alle lor teste.

23 E sotto alla distesa erano le loro ali diritte, l’una di rincontro all’altra; ciascuno ne avea due altre che gli coprivano il corpo.

24 Ed io udii il suono delle loro ali, mentre camminavano; ed era simile al suono di grandi acque, alla voce dell’Onnipotente; la voce della lor favella era come il romore di un campo; quando si fermavano, bassavano le loro ali;

25 e quando si fermavano, e bassavano le loro ali, vi era una voce, che veniva d’in su la distesa, ch’era sopra le lor teste.

26 E di sopra alla distesa, ch’era sopra le lor teste, vi era la sembianza di un trono, simile in vista ad una pietra di zaffiro, e in su la sembianza del trono vi era una sembianza come della figura di un uomo che sedeva sopra esso.

27 Poi vidi come un color di rame scintillante, simile in vista a fuoco, indentro di quella sembianza di trono, d’ogn’intorno, dalla sembianza de’ lombi di quell’uomo in su; parimente, dalla sembianza dei suoi lombi in giù, vidi come un’apparenza di fuoco, intorno al quale vi era uno splendore.

28 L’aspetto di quello splendore d’ogn’intorno era simile all’aspetto dell’arco, che è nella nuvola in giorno di pioggia. Questo fu l’aspetto della somiglianza della gloria del Signore; la quale come io ebbi veduta, caddi sopra la mia faccia, e udii la voce d’uno che parlava.


To many Protestant and Evangelical Italians, the Bibles translated by Giovanni Diodati are an important part of their history. Diodati’s first Italian Bible edition was printed in 1607, and his second in 1641. He died in 1649. Throughout the 1800s two editions of Diodati’s text were printed by the British Foreign Bible Society. This is the more recent 1894 edition, translated by Claudiana.

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775. "Every vessel of precious wood, bronze, iron, and marble." This symbolically means that these Roman Catholics no longer have these because they do not have any knowledge of the goods and truths in ecclesiastical affairs to which such things correspond.

This statement is similar to the ones explained in nos. 772, 773, and 774 above. The difference is that the valuables here are various forms of knowledge, which are the lowest ones in a person's natural mind. And because they differ in character owing to the essence that lies within them, they are called vessels of precious wood, bronze, iron, and marble. For vessels symbolize forms of knowledge, here forms of knowledge in ecclesiastical affairs. Because various forms of knowledge are the containing vessels of goodness and truth, they are like vessels containing oil or wine.

Forms of knowledge are also found in great variety, and their recipient vessel is the memory. They are of great variety because they contain the interior elements of a person. They are also introduced into the memory either by intellectual deliberation or by hearing or reading them, according to the varying perception then of the rational mind. All of these things are present in forms of knowledge, as is apparent when they are reproduced, which is the case when a person speaks or thinks.

[2] But we will briefly say what vessels of precious wood, bronze, iron and marble symbolize. A vessel of precious wood symbolizes something known as the result of rational goodness and truth. A vessel of bronze symbolizes something known as the result of natural goodness. A vessel of iron symbolizes something known as the result of natural truth. And a vessel of marble symbolizes something known as the result of an appearance of goodness and truth.

That wood symbolizes goodness may be seen just above in no. 774. That precious wood here symbolizes both rational goodness and rational truth is due to the fact that wood symbolizes goodness, and preciousness is predicated of truth. For one variety of goodness is symbolized by the wood of the olive tree, another by the wood of the cedar, of the fig tree, of the fir tree, of the poplar and of the oak.

A vessel of bronze and iron symbolizes something known as the result of natural goodness and truth, because all metals, such as gold, silver, bronze, iron, tin, and lead, in the Word symbolize goods and truths. They symbolize because they correspond, and because they correspond they are also found in heaven. For everything in heaven is a correspondent form.

[3] However, this is not the place to confirm from the Word what each kind of metal symbolizes owing to its correspondence. We will cite only some passages to confirm that bronze symbolizes natural goodness, and iron, therefore, natural truth, as can be seen from the following: That the feet of the Son of Man looked like bronze, as though fired in a furnace (Revelation 1:15). That Daniel saw a man whose feet were like the gleam of burnished bronze (Daniel 10:5-6).

That the feet of cherubim were seen sparking as with the gleam of burnished bronze (Ezekiel 1:7). (Feet symbolize something natural, as may be seen in nos. 49, 468, 470, 510.) That an angel appears whose appearance was like the appearance of bronze (Ezekiel 40:3). And that the statue Nebuchadnezzar saw was as to its head golden, as to its breast and arms silver, as to its belly and sides bronze, and as to its legs iron (Daniel 2:32-33). The statue represented the successive states of the church which the ancients called the golden age, silver age, bronze age, and iron age.

Since bronze symbolizes something natural, and the Israelite people were purely natural, therefore the Lord's natural humanity was represented by the bronze serpent, which people bitten by serpents had only to look at to be cured (Numbers 21:6, 8-9).

That bronze symbolizes natural goodness may also be seen in Isaiah 60:17, Jeremiah 15:20-21, Ezekiel 27:13, Deuteronomy 8:7, 9, 33:24-25

  
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Many thanks to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and to Rev. N.B. Rogers, translator, for the permission to use this translation.

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1 Now it happened in the thirtieth year, in the fourth [month], in the fifth [day] of the month, as I was among the captives by the river Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.

2 In the fifth [day] of the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin's captivity,

3 the word of Yahweh came expressly to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and the hand of Yahweh was there on him.

4 I looked, and behold, a stormy wind came out of the north, a great cloud, with flashing lightning, and a brightness around it, and out of its midst as it were glowing metal, out of the midst of the fire.

5 Out of its midst came the likeness of four living creatures. This was their appearance: they had the likeness of a man.

6 Everyone had four faces, and each one of them had four wings.

7 Their feet were straight feet; and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf's foot; and they sparkled like burnished brass.

8 They had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides; and the four of them had their faces and their wings [thus]:

9 their wings were joined one to another; they didn't turn when they went; each one went straight forward.

10 As for the likeness of their faces, they had the face of a man; and the four of them had the face of a lion on the right side; and the four of them had the face of an ox on the left side; the four of them also had the face of an eagle.

11 Such were their faces. Their wings were spread out above. Two wings of each one touched another, and Two covered their bodies.

12 Each one went straight forward: where the spirit was to go, they went; they didn't turn when they went.

13 As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, like the appearance of torches: [the fire] went up and down among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning.

14 The living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning.

15 Now as I saw the living creatures, behold, one wheel on the earth beside the living creatures, for each of the four faces of it.

16 The appearance of the wheels and their work was like a beryl: and the four of them had one likeness; and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel within a wheel.

17 When they went, they went in their four directions: they didn't turn when they went.

18 As for their rims, they were high and dreadful; and the four of them had their rims full of eyes all around.

19 When the living creatures went, the wheels went beside them; and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up.

20 Wherever the spirit was to go, they went; there was the spirit to go: and the wheels were lifted up beside them; for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.

21 When those went, these went; and when those stood, these stood; and when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up beside them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.

22 Over the head of the living creature there was the likeness of an expanse, like the awesome crystal to look on, stretched forth Over their heads above.

23 Under the expanse were their wings straight, the one toward the other: each one had two which covered on this side, and every one had two which covered on that side, their bodies.

24 When they went, I heard the noise of their wings like the noise of great waters, like the voice of the Almighty, a noise of tumult like the noise of an army: when they stood, they let down their wings.

25 There was a voice above the expanse that was over their heads: when they stood, they let down their wings.

26 Above the expanse that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone; and on the likeness of the throne was a likeness as the appearance of a man on it above.

27 I saw as it were glowing metal, as the appearance of fire within it all around, from the appearance of his waist and upward; and from the appearance of his waist and downward I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and there was brightness around him.

28 As the appearance of the rainbow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness all around. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of Yahweh. When I saw it, I fell on my face, and I heard a voice of one that spoke.