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Deuteronomio 13

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1 QUANDO sorgerà in mezzo di te un profeta, o un sognator di sogni, il quale ti darà alcun miracolo o prodigio

2 e quel miracolo o prodigio che egli ti avrà detto, avverrà, dicendo: Andiamo dietro a dii stranieri, i quali tu non hai conosciuti, e serviamo loro;

3 non attendere alle parole di quel profeta, nè a quel sognator di sogni; perciocchè il Signore Iddio vostro vi prova, per conoscere se amate il Signore Iddio vostro con tutto il vostro cuore, e con tutta l’anima vostra.

4 Andate dietro al Signore Iddio vostro, e lui temete, e osservate i suoi comandamenti, e ubbidite alla sua voce, e a lui servite e a lui v’attenete.

5 E facciasi morir quel profeta, o quel sognator di sogni; conciossiachè egli abbia parlato di rivolta contro al Signore Iddio vostro, che vi ha tratti fuor del paese di Egitto, e vi ha riscossi della casa di servitù; per sospignervi fuor della via, nella quale il Signore Iddio vostro vi ha comandato che camminiate; e così togli via il male del mezzo di te.

6 Quando il tuo fratello, figliuolo di tua madre, o il tuo figliuolo, o la tua figliuola, o la moglie del tuo seno, o il tuo famigliare amico, che è come l’anima tua, t’inciterà di segreto, dicendo: Andiamo, e serviamo ad altri dii, i quali non avete conosciuti, nè tu, nè i tuoi padri;

7 d’infra gl’iddii de’ popoli che saranno d’intorno a voi, vicino o lontano da te, da un estremo della terra, fino all’altro estremo;

8 non compiacergli, e non ascoltarlo; l’occhio tuo eziandio non gli perdoni, e non risparmiarlo, e non celarlo.

9 Anzi del tutto uccidilo; sia la tua mano la prima sopra lui, per farlo morire, e poi la mano di tutto il popolo.

10 E lapidalo con pietre, sì che muoia; perciocchè egli ha cercato di sospignerti d’appresso al Signore Iddio tuo, che ti ha tratto fuor del paese di Egitto, della casa di servitù.

11 Acciocchè tutto Israele oda, e tema; e niuno per l’innanzi faccia più in mezzo di te una tal mala cosa.

12 Quando tu udirai che si dirà d’una delle tue città, che il Signore Iddio tuo ti , per abitarvi;

13 che alcuni uomini scellerati sono usciti del mezzo di te, e hanno incitati gli abitanti della lor città, dicendo: Andiamo, e serviamo ad altri dii, i quali voi non avete conosciuti

14 informati, investiga, e domandane ben bene; e se tu trovi che la cosa sia vera e certa, e che questa cosa abbominevole sia stata fatta nel mezzo di te;

15 del tutto percuoti gli abitanti di quella città, e mettili a fil di spada; distruggila al modo dell’interdetto, insieme con tutti quelli che vi saranno dentro, e il suo bestiame, mettendoli a fil di spada.

16 E raccogli le spoglie della città nel mezzo della sua piazza, e brucia interamente col fuoco la città, e tutte le sue spoglie, al Signore Iddio tuo; e sia quella città in perpetuo un mucchio di ruine, e non sia mai più riedificata.

17 E nulla dell’interdetto ti si attacchi alle mani; acciocchè il Signore si stolga dall’ardor della sua ira, e ti faccia misericordia, e abbia pietà di te, e ti accresca, come egli giurò a’ tuoi padri;

18 quando tu ubbidirai alla voce del Signore Iddio tuo, per osservar tutti i suoi comandamenti, i quali io oggi ti do, per fare ciò ch’è diritto appo il Signore Iddio tuo.

   


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 # 748

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748. "And eat her flesh and burn her with fire." This symbolically means that Protestants will with hatred condemn and destroy in themselves the evils and falsities inherent in the Roman Catholic religion, and will renounce the religion itself and expunge it in themselves.

This is said of Protestants, who will deal thus with the harlot, that is, with the Roman Catholic religion. To eat her flesh means, symbolically, with hatred to condemn and destroy in themselves the inherent characteristics of that religion, which are evils and falsities, about which we will say more below. And to burn her with fire means, symbolically, to renounce that religion as profane and expunge it in themselves.

This is what burning with fire means because the penalty for profaning something holy was burning. Therefore, according to Divine law, people who profaned the name of Jehovah by worshiping other gods were burned with fire - they and all their belongings (Deuteronomy 13:12-18). Therefore Moses burned with fire the golden calf that the children of Israel were profanely worshiping (Exodus 32:20, Deuteronomy 9:21). Moreover, because two of Aaron's sons profaned holy things, they were consumed by fire from heaven (Leviticus 10:1-6). Nor is anything else symbolized by the fire and pyre in Tophet but the fire of hell, which awaits those who profane holy things (Isaiah 30:33, Jeremiah 7:11, 31-32; 19:5-6, 2 Kings 23:10), for there the people worshiped Molech with a heinous sacrifice. 1

[2] Since the fourth beast in Daniel 7 symbolizes a religion that profanes the Word and consequently the sanctities of the church (no. 717), therefore we are told that it was burned with fire (Daniel 7:11).

Now, because it is profane worship to worship a person instead of the Lord, we are accordingly told here that they burnt the harlot with fire, which symbolically means that they renounced the religion itself and expunged it in themselves.

To eat her flesh means, symbolically, with hatred to condemn and destroy in themselves the inherent characteristics of that religion, which are evils and falsities, because that is the symbolic meaning of eating her flesh. For flesh symbolizes the inherent characteristics of a thing which relate to goods and truths, and in an opposite sense, to evils and falsities, and to eat means, symbolically, to consume, thus to destroy.

That flesh symbolizes a person's inherent character, which in itself is evil, is clear from the following passages:

It is the spirit that gives life; the flesh profits nothing. (John 6:63)

That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. (John 3:6)

As many as received Him, to them He gave the right to be children of God...: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh... (John 1:12-13)

(God) remembered that they were flesh, a breath that passes away and does not come again. (Psalms 78:39)

The Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses are flesh, and not spirit. (Isaiah 31:3)

(Jerusalem) committed harlotry with the Egyptians..., great of flesh. (Ezekiel 16:26)

Jesus... said to (Peter), ."..flesh and blood has not revealed this to you...." (Matthew 16:17)

Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his arm... (Jeremiah 17:5)

[3] Because flesh symbolizes a person's inherent character, and people who hate others attack their personal character with the intention of destroying it, therefore to eat the flesh has also this symbolic meaning, as in the following passages:

Let the dying die, and the cut off be cut off. Those that are left eat each other's flesh. (Zechariah 11:9)

They shall devour Israel with the whole mouth... Every man shall eat the flesh of his own arm - Manasseh, Ephraim, and Ephraim, Manasseh. (Isaiah 9:12, 20-21)

I will feed those who oppress you with their own flesh... (Isaiah 49:26)

...everyone shall eat the flesh of his friend... (Jeremiah 19:9)

To eat the flesh of sons and daughters (Jeremiah 19:9, Leviticus 26:29, Deuteronomy 28:53) means, symbolically, to destroy truths and goods in oneself, for sons symbolize truths, and daughters goods, as may be seen in nos. 139, 543, 545, 612[1-4] above.

Moreover, in the Word we find reference to "all flesh," and this symbolically means all mankind (Genesis 6:12-13, 17, 19).

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1. The heinous sacrifice consisted of "passing infants through the fire to Molech," by burning them alive on a sacrificial altar. Vestiges of this worship have been found elsewhere, as far as northern Africa. Tophet was a site in the valley of Hinnom at the foot of Mount Zion on the south side. Because of the nature of its worship, the valley of Hinnon (Ge' Hinnom = Gehenna) became synonymous with Hades or hell.

  
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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.