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Amos 6

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1 GUAI a quelli che sono agiati in Sion, e che se ne stanno sicuri nel monte di Samaria, luoghi famosi per capi di nazioni, a’ quali va la casa d’Israele!

2 Passate in Calne, e vedete; e di là andate in Hamat la grande; poi scendete in Gat de’ Filistei; non valevano que’ regni meglio di questi? non erano i lor confini maggiori de’ vostri?

3 Voi, che allontanate il giorno malvagio, e fate accostare il seggio della violenza;

4 che giacete sopra letti di avorio, e lussuriate sopra le vostre lettiere; e mangiate gli agnelli della greggia, e i vitelli tolti di mezzo della stia;

5 che fate concento al suon del salterio; che vi divisate degli strumenti musicali, come Davide;

6 che bevete il vino in bacini, e vi ungete de’ più eccellenti olii odoriferi; e non sentite alcuna doglia della rottura di Giuseppe.

7 Perciò, ora andranno in cattività, in capo di quelli che andranno in cattività; e i conviti de’ lussurianti cesseranno.

8 Il Signore Iddio ha giurato per l’anima sua, dice il Signore Iddio degli eserciti: Io abbomino l’alterezza di Giacobbe, e odio i suoi palazzi, e darò in man del nemico la città, e tutto ciò che vi è dentro.

9 Ed avverrà che se pur dieci uomini rimangono in una casa, morranno.

10 E lo zio, o il cugin loro li torrà, e li brucerà, per trarre le ossa fuor della casa; e dirà a colui che sarà in fondo della casa: Evvi ancora alcuno teco? Ed esso dirà: Niuno. E colui gli dirà: Taci; perciocchè egli non è tempo di ricordare il Nome del Signore.

11 Perciocchè, ecco, il Signore dà commissione di percuotere le case grandi di ruine, e le case piccole di rotture.

12 I cavalli romperanno essi le zolle su per le rocce? o vi si arerà co’ buoi? conciossiachè voi abbiate cangiato il giudicio in veleno, e il frutto della giustizia in assenzio;

13 voi, che vi rallegrate di cose da nulla; che dite: Non abbiamo noi acquistate delle corna con la nostra forza?

14 Perciocchè, ecco, io fo sorgere contro a voi, o casa d’Israele, una nazione, che vi oppresserà dall’entrata di Hamat, fino al torrente del deserto, dice il Signore Iddio degli eserciti.

   


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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Apocalypse Revealed # 779

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779. Since oil is mentioned here among sacred ingredients of worship, and symbolizes celestial good, we must say something now about the oil used in anointing, oil which was used by ancient peoples and afterward commanded to the children of Israel.

In ancient times people anointed stones set up as pillars, as is apparent from Genesis 28:18-19, 22. They also anointed weapons of war, shields and bucklers (2 Samuel 1:21, Isaiah 21:5). The Israelites were commanded to prepare holy oil with which to anoint all the sacred ecclesiastical vessels; and they used it to anoint the altar and all its vessels, as well as the Tabernacle and all its vessels (Exodus 30:22-33, 40:9-11; Leviticus 8:10-12; Numbers 7:1). They used it to anoint the men who exercised the functions of the priesthood and their garments (Exodus 29:7, 29, 30:30, 40:13-15; Leviticus 8:12; Psalm 133:1-3). They used it to anoint prophets (1 Kings 19:15, 16). They used it to anoint kings, and kings were called therefore Jehovah's anointed (1 Samuel 10:1, 15:1, 16:3, 6, 12, 24:6, 10, 26:9, 11, 16, 23; 2 Samuel 1:16, 2:4, 7, 5:3, 17, 19:21; 1 Kings 1:34, 35, 19:15, 16; 2 Kings 9:3; 11:12; 23:30; Lamentations 4:20; Habakkuk 3:13; Psalms 2:2, 6; 20:6; 28:8; 45:7; 84:9; 89:20, 38, 51; 132:17).

[2] Anointing with holy oil was commanded because oil symbolized the goodness of love and represented the Lord, who in His humanity is Himself Jehovah's anointed and His only anointed, being anointed not with oil, but with the Divine goodness itself of Divine love. Consequently He is also called the Messiah in the Old Testament and Christ in the New Testament (John 1:41; 4:25), Messiah and Christ meaning "the Anointed."

That is why priests, kings, and all ecclesiastical vessels were anointed, and having been anointed were called holy - not that they were holy in themselves, but because by virtue of the anointing they represented the Lord in His Divine humanity. Consequently it was a sacrilege to harm a king, because he was Jehovah's anointed (1 Samuel 24:6, 10; 26:9).

[3] Furthermore, it was an accepted practice to anoint themselves and others to attest to their gladness of heart and goodwill, but with ordinary oil or some other fine oil, and not with holy oil (Matthew 6:17; Mark 6:13; Luke 7:46; Isaiah 61:3; Amos 6:6; Micah 6:15; Psalms 92:10; 104:15; Daniel 10:3; Deuteronomy 28:40). They were not permitted to anoint themselves or others with holy oil (Exodus 30:31-33).

  
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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.