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1 Samuel 27

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1 OR Davide disse fra sè stesso: Ecco, un giorno io perirò per le mani di Saulle; non vi è nulla di meglio per me, se non che io scampi affatto nel paese de’ Filistei; talchè Saulle, se pur continua a cercarmi per tutte le contrade d’Israele, perda ogni speranza di me; così scamperò dalla sua mano.

2 Davide adunque si levò, e passò, con seicent’uomini ch’egli avea seco, ad Achis, figliuolo di Maoc, re di Gat.

3 E Davide dimorò con Achis in Gat, insieme con la sua gente, ciascuno con la sua famiglia. Davide vi era con le sue due mogli Ahinoam Izreelita, e Abigail, ch’era stata moglie di Nabal da Carmel.

4 Or egli fu rapportato a Saulle che Davide era fuggito in Gat; laonde egli non continuò più a cercarlo.

5 E Davide disse ad Achis: Deh! se io sono in grazia tua, siami data stanza in una delle città della campagna, acciocchè io vi dimori; e perchè dimorerebbe il tuo servitore teco nella città reale?

6 Ed Achis gli diede in quel dì Siclag; perciò Siclag è restata ai re di Giuda infino a questo giorno.

7 Or lo spazio del tempo che Davide dimorò nelle contrade de’ Filistei, fu un anno e quattro mesi.

8 E Davide saliva con la sua gente, e faceva delle correrie nel paese de’ Ghesurei, e de’ Ghirzei, e degli Amalechiti; perciocchè quelle nazioni abitavano nel lor paese, da Sur fino al paese di Egitto.

9 E Davide percoteva il paese, e non lasciava in vita nè uomo, nè donna; e pigliava pecore, e buoi, ed asini, e cammelli e vestimenti; poi se ne ritornava, e veniva ad Achis.

10 E Achis diceva: Dove siete oggi scorsi? E Davide diceva: Sopra la contrada meridionale di Giuda, sopra la contrada meridionale de’ Ierameeliti, e sopra la contrada meridionale de’ Chenei.

11 Ma Davide non lasciava in vita nè uomo, nè donna, per menarli in Gat; perciocchè diceva: Ei si convien provvedere che non facciano alcun rapporto contro a noi, dicendo: Così ha fatto Davide. E tal fu il suo costume tutto il tempo ch’egli dimorò nelle contrade de’ Filistei.

12 Ed Achis credeva a Davide, e diceva: Egli si è renduto del tutto abbominevole ad Israele, suo popolo; per ciò, egli mi sarà servitore in perpetuo.

   


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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Arcana Coelestia # 1679

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1679. 'And they smote all the territory of the Amalekites' means kinds of falsities. This is clear from the representation and meaning of the 'Amalekite' nation, for all the nations that were in the land of Canaan represented kinds of falsities and evils, as will be clear, in the Lord's Divine mercy, from what follows. 'The Amalekites' means falsities, 'the Amorites in Hazezon-tamar' evils deriving from falsities. That 'the Amalekites' means falsities which assail truths becomes clear from what is mentioned regarding the Amalekites in Exodus 17:13-end; Numbers 13:29; 24:20; Deuteronomy 25:17-19; Judges 5:14; 1 Samuel 15:1-end; 1 Samuel 27:8; Psalms 83:7-8.

[2] The Rephaim, Zuzim, Emim, and Horites, referred to in verses 5-6, mean false persuasions that have their origins in desires for evil, that is, in evils, whereas here 'the Amalekites and the Amorites in Hazezon-tamar' means falsities from which evils derive. Falsity deriving from evil is one thing, falsity and evil deriving from that falsity another. Falsities spring either from evil desires which belong to the will or from accepted ideas which belong to the understanding. Falsities that spring from evil desires belonging to the will are foul and do not easily allow themselves to be rooted out, for they cling to a person's life itself. A person's life itself is that which desires, that is, which loves. As long as he is making that life firm within himself, that is, confirming that desire or love, all things of a confirmatory nature are false and are implanted in his life. Such were the people before the Flood.

[3] Falsities however which spring from accepted ideas belonging to the understanding cannot be rooted in the same way in the will part of man's mind. Like false or heretical doctrines, these have their origin outside of the will, coming instead from the absorption of such matters in early childhood, and after that from the confirmation of them in adult years. Yet because they are false they inevitably produce evils of life. For example, when anyone believes that he merits salvation through works and confirms himself in that belief, a sense of merit, of his own righteousness, and of assurance [of salvation] are the evils that result from it. On the other hand, when anyone believes that a truly devout life is not possible unless merit is attached to works, the evil which results from that belief is that he destroys all such devoutness in himself and gives himself up to evil desires and pleasures. It is the same with many other examples that could be taken. Such are the falsities and derivative evils dealt with in this verse.

  
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