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Deuteronomio 16

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1 OSSERVA il mese di Abib, e celebra in esso la Pasqua al Signore Iddio tuo; perciocchè il Signore Iddio tuo ti trasse fuor di Egitto, di notte, nel mese di Abib.

2 E sacrifica, nella Pasqua del Signore Iddio tuo, pecore e buoi, nel luogo che il Signore avrà scelto per istanziarvi il suo Nome.

3 Non mangiar con essa pane lievitato; mangia per sette giorni con essa pani azzimi, pane di afflizione; perciocchè tu uscisti in fretta del paese di Egitto; acciocchè tu ti ricordi del giorno che uscisti del paese di Egitto, tutto il tempo della vita tua.

4 E per sette giorni non veggasi alcun lievito appo te, in tutti i tuoi confini; e della carne che tu avrai ammazzata la sera, nel primo giorno, non restine nulla la notte fino alla mattina.

5 Tu non potrai sacrificar la Pasqua in qualunque tua città, la quale il Signore Iddio tuo ti ;

6 ma sacrificala nel luogo, che il Signore Iddio tuo avrà scelto per istanziarvi il suo Nome, in su la sera, come il sole tramonterà, nel medesimo tempo che tu uscisti di Egitto.

7 E cuocila, e mangiala nel luogo che il Signore Iddio tuo avrà scelto; poi la mattina seguente tu te ne potrai ritornare, e andare alle tue stanze.

8 Mangia pani azzimi sei giorni; e al settimo giorno siavi solenne raunanza al Signore Iddio tuo; non fare in esso lavoro alcuno.

9 Contati sette settimane; da che si sarà cominciato a metter la falce nelle biade, comincia a contar queste sette settimane.

10 E celebra la festa delle Settimane al Signore Iddio tuo, offerendo offerte volontarie di tua mano a sufficienza, le quali tu darai secondo che il Signore Iddio tuo ti avrà benedetto.

11 E rallegrati davanti al Signore Iddio tuo, tu, e il tuo figliuolo, e la tua figliuola, e il tuo servo, e la tua serva, e il Levita che sarà dentro alle tue porte, e il forestiere, e l’orfano, e la vedova, che saranno nel mezzo di te, nel luogo il quale il Signore Iddio tuo avrà scelto per istanziarvi il suo Nome.

12 E ricordati che tu sei stato servo in Egitto, e osserva questi statuti, e mettili in opera.

13 Celebra la festa de’ Tabernacoli per sette giorni, quando tu avrai ricolti i frutti della tua aia e del tuo tino;

14 e rallegrati nella tua festa, tu, e il tuo figliuolo, e la tua figliuola, e il tuo servo, e la tua serva, e il Levita, e il forestiere, e l’orfano, e la vedova, che saranno dentro alle tue porte.

15 Celebra la festa al Signore Iddio tuo, per sette giorni, nel luogo che il Signore avrà scelto; quando il Signore Iddio tuo ti avrà benedetto in tutta la tua rendita, e in tutta l’opera delle tue mani; e del tutto sii lieto.

16 Tre volte l’anno comparisca ogni maschio tuo davanti al Signore Iddio tuo, nel luogo ch’egli avrà scelto, cioè: nella festa de’ Pani azzimi, nella festa delle Settimane, e nella festa de’ Tabernacoli; e niuno comparisca vuoto davanti al Signore.

17 Offerisca ciascuno secondo che potrà donare, secondo la benedizione che il Signore Iddio tuo ti avrà mandata.

18 COSTITUISCITI de’ Giudici e degli Ufficiali, in tutte le tue città le quali il Signore Iddio tuo ti , per le tribù; e giudichino essi il popolo con giusto giudicio.

19 Non pervertir la ragione; non aver riguardo alla persona, e non prender presenti; perciocchè il presente accieca gli occhi de’ savi, e sovverte le parole de’ giusti.

20 Del tutto va’ dietro alla giustizia, acciocchè tu viva, e possegga il paese che il Signore Iddio tuo ti .

21 Non piantarti alcun bosco, di veruno albero presso all’Altar del Signore Iddio tuo, che tu ti avrai fatto.

22 E non rizzarti alcuna statua; il che il Signore Iddio tuo odia.

   


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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8487. 'And the sun grew hot, and it melted' means its disappearance gradually as craving increased. This is clear from the meaning of 'the sun growing hot' as craving that is increasing, dealt with below; and from the meaning of 'melting' as disappearing. The reason why 'the sun grew hot' means craving that was increasing is that 'the sun' in a good sense means heavenly love. It means this because the Lord is the Sun in the next life, the heat which comes from it being the good of love, and the light the truth of faith. (For more about that Sun - that it is the Lord and that heavenly love comes from it - see 1053, 1521, 1529-1531, 2120, 2441, 2495, 3636, 3643, 4060, 4321 (end), 4696, 5084, 5047, 5377, 7078, 7083, 7171, 7173, 7270.) Therefore 'the sun' in the contrary sense means self-love and love of the world, and the heat from the sun or its 'growing hot' in that sense means craving.

[2] The nature of the occurrence described here - that the good of truth, meant by 'the manna', disappeared gradually as craving increased, meant by its melting when the sun grew hot - must be explained briefly. The good of truth or spiritual good is indeed imparted to a member of the spiritual Church undergoing regeneration; but that good kills off every delight belonging to self-love and love of the world that has constituted his life previously, since they are contrary to each other. This being so, pure good of truth cannot remain for long with that person, but is modified by the Lord by means of the delights belonging to the two loves constituting his life previously. For if that good were not modified in this way it would hold no delight for him and so would be loathsome. This is what heavenly good is like initially with those undergoing regeneration. To the extent therefore that the delights of self-love and love of the world rise up, the good of heavenly love disappears, since, as has been stated, they are contrary to that good. So the reverse also occurs.

[3] This explains why in heaven there are changes of states, to which changes of times and seasons in the world correspond, 8426, and why such changes return those who are there to the delights that go with natural pleasures. For without such change of states the good of heavenly love would become so to speak dry and worthless. It is different when it is modified by natural delights, at once or in stages. This is why at first, when the children of Israel were given the man[na] every morning they were also given the selav in the evening; for 'the selav' means natural delight, and also the delight that goes with craving, 8452.

[4] But it should be recognized that the cravings to which those in heaven return when their evening comes are not cravings that are contrary to heavenly good, but ones that are to some extent in accord with it. For there are the delights of conferring benefits rather lavishly and getting some glory out of doing so, delights however which hold goodwill and the desire to serve others. Then there are the delights of opulence in home decor and personal dress, and very many other delights like these. Such delights are not ones that destroy the good of heavenly love, though they do nevertheless eclipse it. But eventually - depending on the degree the person's regeneration reaches - they become the lowest levels of heavenly good. At this point they are no longer spoken of as cravings but as delights. The fact that the good of heavenly love unless modified by such delights becomes so to speak dry, and after that is loathed as being so to speak worthless, is meant by the reaction of the children of Israel who, when they were no longer given the selav, called the manna dry food and worthless food. Their doing so is referred to in Moses as follows,

The rabble who were in the midst [of the people] had a strong craving, and so the children of Israel also wept repeatedly and said, Who will feed us with flesh? But now our soul is dry; there is nothing at all except the man[na] for our eyes [to look] at. Numbers 11:4, 6.

In the same author,

The people spoke against God and against Moses, Why have you caused us to come up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? There is no bread, nor water; now our soul loathes this most worthless bread. Numbers 21:5.

And elsewhere in the same author,

Jehovah afflicted you, and caused you to hunger, and fed you with manna which you did not know, nor your fathers knew, in order that He might teach you that man does not live by bread only, but that man lives by every utterance of the mouth of Jehovah. Deuteronomy 8:3.

[5] 'Manna' is similar in meaning to 'unleavened bread', which means good pure and free from falsities, 8058. That bread is for a similar reason called the bread of misery, 1 Deuteronomy 16:3.

From all this one may now see how to understand the disappearance of the good of truth gradually as craving increased, meant by the melting of the man[na] when the sun grew hot.

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1. Here Swedenborg follows Sebastian Schmidt; in other places Swedenborg has the bread of affliction.

  
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