Abrahamo
Abramo (o Abram, come viene chiamato all'inizio della sua storia) è uno dei personaggi principali della storia delle Sacre Scritture. Fu l'antenato di tutti i...
moglie
The Hebrew of the Old Testament has six different common words which are generally translated as "wife," which largely overlap but have different nuances. Swedenborg...
nome
It's easy to see that names are important in the Bible. Jehovah changed Abram and Sarai to Abraham and Sarah, changed Jacob to Israel and...
ketura
'Keturah,' as in Genesis 25:1, signifies divine truth spiritual, conjoined to divine good spiritual.
jokshan
Jokshan' signifies common lots of the Lord's spiritual kingdom.
Medan
'Medan' signifies common lots of the Lord’s spiritual kingdom.
madian
'Midianites' signify people who are in the truth of simple good.
generò
Procreare o essere generati è molto simile alla nascita: Rappresenta uno stato spirituale che conduce allo stato spirituale successivo. La "procreazione", tuttavia, è generalmente legata...
dedan
Dedan (Gen. 10) signifies the knowledges of celestial things of an inferior order, such as consist in ritual observances. Dedan, in Jer. 49:8 signifies rituals...
figliuoli
A child is a young boy or girl in the care of parents, older than a suckling or an infant, but not yet an adolescent....
Leummim
'Leummim' signify the good of faith and its varieties.
Hanoch
'Hanoch' denotes those who are in the truth of faith.
Isacco
'Isaac' represents spiritual love. 'Isaac,' in Genesis 17:19, signifies the rational divine. 'Isaac' signifies the Lord's divine rational in reference to divine good. Isaac' signifies...
vita
'Lives' is used in the plural, because of the will and understanding, and because these two lives make one.
figliuolo
'A son,' as in Genesis 5:28, signifies the rise of a new church. 'Son,' as in Genesis 24:3, signifies the Lord’s rationality regarding good. 'A...
d’abrahamo
Abramo (o Abram, come viene chiamato all'inizio della sua storia) è uno dei personaggi principali della storia delle Sacre Scritture. Fu l'antenato di tutti i...
cinque
Five also signifies all things of one part.
Ismaele
'Ishmael' represents the first rationality pertaining to the Lord. 'Ishmael' signifies rationality separate from good. 'Ishmael' signifies the Lord's merely human rational. Ishmael, in Genesis...
Macpela
'Macpelah,' as in Genesis 23:17, signifies regeneration by truth, which relates to faith.
campo
Un "campo" nella Bibbia di solito rappresenta la chiesa del Signore, e più specificamente il desiderio di bene all'interno della chiesa. È dove le cose...
efron
Ephron (Gen. 23:8, 17) signifies those with whom the good and truth of faith, which are the constituents of the church, might be received.
hitteo
'A Hittite' in a good sense, signifies the spiritual church, or the truth of the church. The Hittites were among the upright Gentiles who were...
mamre
Mamre was an Amorite who lived in the land of Canaan, in the area called Hebron in what would much later be the kingdom of...
heth
The daughters of Heth, as mentioned in Genesis 27:46, signify the affections of truth from a ground that is not genuine. Here they are the...
sara
'Sarah' denotes truth joined to good. Sarai was called 'Sarah' so she would represent the divine intellectual principle by adding the 'H' from the name...
dopo
Secondo Swedenborg, il tempo e lo spazio non esistono nella realtà spirituale, sono cose puramente naturali che esistono solo sul piano fisico. Ciò significa che...
Iddio
Il Signore è l'amore stesso, espresso sotto forma di saggezza. L'amore, quindi, è la sua essenza, il suo intimo. La saggezza - la comprensione amorosa...
benedisse
Il Signore è l'amore perfetto espresso come saggezza perfetta. Ci ha creati perché ci amasse, ci desse amore e saggezza, e potesse così unirsi a...
agar
Hagar, as mentioned in Genesis 16, signifies the affection of sciences of the outward self and also the life of the outer or natural self.
serva
'A handmaid' signifies the affection of rational and scientific things. 'A handmaid,' as mentioned in Genesis 30:3, signifies the affirming medium of conjoining inner truths...
nomi
It's easy to see that names are important in the Bible. Jehovah changed Abram and Sarai to Abraham and Sarah, changed Jacob to Israel and...
Nebaioth
'Nebaioth,' as in Genesis 28, denotes good of the spiritual church.
primogenito
Quando la Bibbia parla di generazioni o di ordine di nascita, il significato interno ha a che fare con la progressione degli stati spirituali e...
Kedar
'Kedar' or 'Arabia' signifies spiritual good. Kedar' denotes people of the Gentiles who are in simple truth. 'Arabia' signifies the same thing.
Mibsam
'Mibsam' means things pertaining to the spiritual church.
secondo
The number "two" has two different meanings in the Bible. In most cases "two" indicates a joining together or unification. This is easy to see...
villaggi
'Villages' signify the external aspects of faith and the church. Rituals are the external parts of the church. Doctrines are the internal parts when they...
Sette
The number 'seven' was considered holy, as is well known, because of the six days of creation, and the seventh, which is the celestial self,...
Havila
'Havilah,' as mentioned in Genesis 10:28, signifies a ritual of the church called Eber. 'The land of Havilah,' as mentioned in Genesis 2:11, signifies the...
shur
'Shur,' or 'Assyria,' signifies the Lord's state when He first received instruction in matters of doctrine regarding charity and faith.
Egitto
Nella Bibbia, Egitto significa conoscenza e amore della conoscenza. In senso buono questo significa conoscenza della verità dal Signore attraverso la Bibbia, ma in senso...
fratelli
Ci sono due modi in cui "fratello" è usato nella Bibbia, modi che si riflettono ancora nel linguaggio moderno. Uno denota una relazione di sangue...
d’isacco
'Isaac' represents spiritual love. 'Isaac,' in Genesis 17:19, signifies the rational divine. 'Isaac' signifies the Lord's divine rational in reference to divine good. Isaac' signifies...
quarant
'Forty' means completeness because 'four' means what is complete, as does 'ten.' Forty is the product of four and ten. Compound numbers have a meaning...
rebecca
'Rebecca,' as in Genesis 24, signifies divine truth which would be joined to divine good of the Lord’s rational mind, which is 'Isaac.'
figliuola
Marriages among people – both in the Bible and in life – represent spiritual marriage. Women represent the desire to be good and to do...
Bethuel
Bethuel (Gen. 24), signifies the origin of the affection of good.
Paddan
'Padan Aram,' as in Genesis 28:2, signifies the exterior knowledges of good and truth.
sorella
The Lord calls people who are in truth from the good of charity from Him 'sisters,' as in Matthew 12:50. 'Sister' denotes intellectual truth, when...
Labano
'Laban' signifies the affection of good in the natural self, or the affection of external good, and properly collateral good of a common stock. The...
l’eterno
The Lord, in the simplest terms, is love itself expressed as wisdom itself. In philosophic terms, love is the Lord's substance and wisdom is His...
sterile
"Sarai was barren, she had no child" (Gen 11:30), signifies that evil and falsity were not productive.
bambini
A child is a young boy or girl in the care of parents, older than a suckling or an infant, but not yet an adolescent....
disse
As with many common verbs, the meaning of “to say” in the Bible is highly dependent on context. Who is speaking? Who is hearing? What...
due
The number "two" has two different meanings in the Bible. In most cases "two" indicates a joining together or unification. This is easy to see...
nazioni
'A nation,' as in Genesis 21:18, signifies the spiritual church which should receive the good of faith. Nation from afar,' as in Jeremiah 5:17, signifies...
Gemelli
'Twins in the womb,' as in Genesis 25:24, signifies that both good and truth, represented by Esau and Jacob, were conceived together.
primo
Why would it be insulting for a man to refer to his married partner as his “first wife”? Because it implies there will be a...
esaù
Esau (Gen. 28:5, etc.) signifies the truth of good in the natural principle. Esau (Gen. 32:3) signifies celestial good in the natural principle.
fratello
Ci sono due modi in cui "fratello" è usato nella Bibbia, modi che si riflettono ancora nel linguaggio moderno. Uno denota una relazione di sangue...
mano
Scientists believe that one of the most crucial developments in the evolution of humans was bipedalism – walking on two legs. That left our hands...
giacobbe
Jacob is told twice that his name will now be Israel. The first time is when he wrestles with an angel on his journey to...
uomo
The relationship between men and women is deep and nuanced, and one entire book of the Writings – Conjugial Love or Love in Marriage –...
tende
'Tent' is used in the Word to signify the celestial and holy aspects of love, because in ancient time they performed holy worship in their...
chiamato
Chiamare qualcuno o convocare qualcuno nella Bibbia rappresenta un desiderio di congiunzione tra gli stati superiori e inferiori della vita. Per esempio, immaginate qualcuno in...
edom
'Edom' or 'Idumea,' as in Isaiah 34:5, signifies those who are in evil and in falsities thence derived.
morire
Dead (Gen. 23:8) signifies night, in respect to the goodnesses and truths of faith.
giurò
'To sware' is a binding.
pane
Proprio come il cibo naturale nutre il corpo naturale, così il cibo spirituale nutre il corpo spirituale. E poiché il nostro corpo spirituale è l'espressione...
Lenticchie
'Lentils' signify the less noble types of good.
mangiò
Quando mangiamo, il nostro corpo scompone il cibo e ne ricava energia e materiali per costruire e riparare il corpo. Il processo è molto simile...
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