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Daniel 10

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1 NELL’anno terzo di Ciro, re di Persia, fu rivelata una parola a Daniele, il cui nome si chiamava Beltsasar; e la parola è verità, e l’esercito era grande. Ed egli comprese la parola, ed ebbe intelligenza della visione.

2 In quel tempo io Daniele feci cordoglio lo spazio di tre settimane.

3 Io non mangiai cibo di diletto, e non mi entrò in bocca carne, nè vino, e non mi unsi punto, finchè fu compiuto il termine di tre settimane.

4 E nel ventesimoquarto giorno del primo mese, essendo io in su la ripa del gran fiume, che è Hiddechel,

5 alzai gli occhi, e riguardai, ed ecco un uomo vestito di panni lini, avendo sopra i lombi una cintura di fino oro di Ufaz.

6 E il suo corpo somigliava un grisolito, e la sua faccia era come l’aspetto del folgore; e i suoi occhi eran simili a torchi accesi; e le sue braccia, e i suoi piedi, somigliavano in vista del rame forbito, e il suono delle sue parole pareva il romore d’una moltitudine.

7 Ed io Daniele solo vidi la visione, e gli uomini ch’erano meco non la videro; anzi gran terrore cadde sopra loro, e fuggirono per nascondersi.

8 Ed io rimasi solo, e vidi quella gran visione, e non restò in me forza alcuna, e il mio bel colore fu mutato in ismorto, e non ritenni alcun vigore.

9 Ed io udii la voce delle parole di colui; e quando ebbi udita la voce delle sue parole, mi addormentai profondamente sopra la mia faccia, col viso in terra.

10 Ed ecco, una mano mi toccò, e mi fece muovere, e stare sopra le ginocchia, e sopra le palme delle mani.

11 E mi disse: O Daniele, uomo gradito, intendi le parole che io ti ragiono, e rizzati in piè nel luogo dove stai; perciocchè ora sono stato mandato a te. E quando egli mi ebbe detta quella parola, io mi rizzai in piè tutto tremante.

12 Ed egli mi disse: Non temere, o Daniele: perciocchè, dal primo dì che tu recasti il cuor tuo ad intendere, e ad affliggerti nel cospetto dell’Iddio tuo, le tue parole furono esaudite, ed io son venuto per le tue parole.

13 Ma il principe del regno di Persia mi ha contrastato ventun giorno; ma ecco, Micael, l’uno de’ primi principi, è venuto per aiutarmi. Io dunque son rimasto quivi appresso i re di Persia.

14 Ed ora son venuto per farti intendere ciò che avverrà al tuo popolo nella fine de’ giorni; perciocchè vi è ancora visione per quei giorni.

15 E mentre egli parlava meco in questa maniera, io misi la mia faccia in terra, ed ammutolii.

16 Ed ecco uno, che avea la sembianza d’un figliuol d’uomo, mi toccò in su le labbra; allora io apersi la mia bocca, e parlai, e dissi a colui ch’era in piè davanti a me: Signor mio, le mie giunture son tutte svolte in me in questa visione, e non ho ritenuto alcun vigore.

17 E come porterebbe il servitore di cotesto mio Signore parlar con cotesto mio Signore? conciossiachè fino ad ora non sia restato fermo in me alcun vigore, e non sia rimasto in me alcun fiato.

18 Allora di nuovo una sembianza come d’un uomo mi toccò, e mi fortificò,

19 e disse: Non temere, uomo gradito; abbi pace, fortificati, e confortati. E come egli parlava meco, io mi fortificai, e dissi: Parli il mio Signore; perciocchè tu mi hai fortificato.

20 E colui disse: Sai tu perchè io son venuto a te? Or di presente io ritornerò per guerreggiar col principe di Persia; poi uscirò, ed ecco, il principe di Iavan verrà.

21 Ma pure io ti dichiarerò ciò ch’è stampato nella scrittura della verità; or non vi è niuno che si porti valorosamente meco in queste cose, se non Micael, vostro principe.

   


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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945. 22:8 Now I, John, saw and heard these things. And when I heard and saw, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel who showed me these things. This means that John supposed that the angel sent to him by the Lord to keep him in a state of the spirit was the God who revealed these things, when in fact that was not the case, as the angel only showed him what the Lord presented.

Clearly John supposed that the angel sent to him was the Lord Himself, for we are told that he fell down to worship before the angel's feet. But that it was not as he supposed is apparent from the next verse, in which the angel tells him that he is his fellow servant: "Worship God." That the angel was sent to John by the Lord is apparent from verse 16, which says, "I, Jesus, have sent My angel to testify to you these things in the churches."

But behind this lies the following secret: The Lord sent the angel to John in order to keep him in a state of the spirit and to show him in that state the visions he saw. For whatever John saw, he saw not with the eyes of his body, but with the eyes of his spirit, as can be seen from the passages in which he says that he was in the spirit and seeing a vision (Revelation 1:10; 9:17; 17:3; 21:10), thus everywhere that he says "he saw." And a person can enter that state and be kept in it only by angels who are closely attached to the person, who induce their own spiritual state on the interiors of his mind. For this raises the person into the light of heaven, and in that light he sees sights in heaven and not in the world.

[2] Ezekiel, Zechariah, Daniel, and other prophets were at times in the same state, but not when they spoke the Word. When they spoke the Word they were not in the spirit, but conscious in the body, and the words they wrote they heard from Jehovah Himself, that is, from the Lord.

These two states experienced by the prophets must be properly distinguished. The prophets themselves also properly distinguished them, for they everywhere say when they wrote the Word from Jehovah that Jehovah spoke with them and to them, and most often, "Thus says Jehovah," or "the word of Jehovah." However, when they were in the other state, they say that they were in the spirit or seeing in a vision, as can be seen from the following: (Ezekiel said,) "The spirit lifted me up and brought me in a vision... of God into Chaldea, to those in captivity. So the vision that I saw went up upon me." (Ezekiel 11:1, 24)

Ezekiel says that the spirit lifted him up and that he heard behind him an earthquake, among other things (Ezekiel 3:12, 14). Also that the spirit lifted him up between earth and heaven, and brought him in visions of God to Jerusalem, where he saw abominations (Ezekiel 8:3ff.). Therefore he was also seeing in a vision of God or in the spirit when he saw four living creatures, which were cherubim (Ezekiel 1 and 10). And when he saw a new temple and a new land, and an angel measuring them (Ezekiel 40; 41; 42; 43; 44; 45; 46; 47; 48). He says that he was then seeing in the visions of God (Ezekiel 40:2), and that the spirit lifted him up (Ezekiel 43:5).

[3] It was the same with Zechariah, who had an angel with him at the time when he saw a man riding among the myrtle trees (Zechariah 1:8ff.). When he saw the four horns, and then the man with a measuring line in his hand (Zechariah 1:18; 2:1ff.). When he saw Joshua, the high priest (Zechariah 3:1ff.). When he saw the lampstand and two olive trees (Zechariah 4:1ff.). When he saw the flying scroll and the ephah (Zechariah 5:1, 6). And when he saw the four chariots and their horses coming from between two mountains (Zechariah 6:1ff.).

Daniel was in the same state when he saw four beasts coming up from the sea (Daniel 7:1ff.), and when he saw the combat of the ram and the male goat (Daniel 8:1ff.). That he saw these sights in visions is said in Daniel 7:1-2, 7, 13; 8:2; 10:1, 7-8. Moreover, that he saw the angel Gabriel and spoke with him in a vision (Daniel 9:21).

It was the same with John when he saw the sights he described, as when he saw the Son of Man in the midst of the seven lampstands; when he saw the tabernacle, 1 the temple, 2 the ark, 3 and the altar 4 in heaven; the dragon and its combat with Michael; 5 the beasts; 6 the woman sitting on the scarlet beast; 7 the new heaven and new earth, and the holy Jerusalem with its wall, gates, and foundations; 8 and more.

These sights were revealed by the Lord, but shown by an angel.

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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.