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Deuteronomio 27

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1 OR Mosè, con gli Anziani d’Israele, comandò e disse al popolo: Osservate tutti i comandamenti i quali oggi vi do.

2 E nel giorno che sarete passati il Giordano, per entrar nel paese che il Signore Iddio vostro vi , rizzati delle grandi pietre, e smaltale con calcina.

3 E scrivi sopra esse tutte le parole di questa Legge, dopo che tu sarai passato, per entrar nel paese che il Signore Iddio tuo ti , paese stillante latte e miele; siccome il Signore Iddio de’ tuoi padri te ne ha parlato.

4 Quando adunque sarete passati il Giordano, rizzatevi queste pietre, le quali oggi vi comando, nel monte di Ebal; e smaltatele con calcina.

5 Edifica ancora quivi un altare al Signore Iddio tuo, un altar di pietre; non far passare ferro sopra esse.

6 Edifica l’altare del Signore Iddio tuo di pietre intiere; e offerisci sopra esso olocausti al Signore Iddio tuo.

7 Sacrifica ancora quivi sacrificii da render grazie; e mangia, e rallegrati davanti al Signore Iddio tuo.

8 E scrivi sopra quelle pietre tutte le parole di questa Legge chiaramente e bene.

9 Mosè ancora, co’ sacerdoti Leviti, parlò a tutto Israele, dicendo: Attendi, e ascolta, Israele: Oggi tu sei divenuto popolo del Signore Iddio tuo.

10 Ubbidisci adunque alla voce del Signore Iddio tuo, e metti in opera i suoi comandamenti, e i suoi statuti, i quali oggi ti do.

11 Mosè ancora in quello stesso giorno comandò, e disse al popolo:

12 Gli uni d’infra voi stieno sopra il monte di Gherizim, per benedire il popolo quando sarete passati il Giordano; cioè, le tribù di Simeone, di Levi, di Giuda, d’Issacar, di Giuseppe, e di Beniamino;

13 e gli altri stieno sopra il monte di Ebal, per pronunziar la maledizione; cioè, le tribù di Ruben, di Gad, di Aser, di Zabulon, di Dan, e di Neftali.

14 E parlino i Leviti, e dicano ad alta voce a tutti gl’Israeliti:

15 Maledetto sia l’uomo che avrà fatta scultura, o statua di getto, che è cosa abbominevole al Signore, opera di man di artefice, e l’avrà riposta in luogo occulto. —E risponda tutto il popolo, e dica: Amen.

16 Maledetto sia chi sprezza suo padre o sua madre. —E dica tutto il popolo: Amen.

17 Maledetto sia chi muove i termini del suo prossimo. —E tutto il popolo dica: Amen.

18 Maledetto sia chi trasvia il cieco. —E tutto il popolo dica: Amen.

19 Maledetto sia chi pervertisce la ragione del forestiere, dell’orfano, e della vedova. —E tutto il popolo dica: Amen.

20 Maledetto sia chi giace con la moglie di suo padre; perciocchè egli scopre il lembo di suo padre. —E tutto il popolo dica: Amen.

21 Maledetto sia chi si congiugne con alcuna bestia. —E tutto il popolo dica: Amen.

22 Maledetto sia chi giace con la sua sorella, figliuola di suo padre, o figliuola di sua madre. —E tutto il popolo dica: Amen.

23 Maledetto sia chi giace con la sua suocera. —E tutto il popolo dica: Amen.

24 Maledetto sia chi uccide il suo prossimo in occulto. —E tutto il popolo dica: Amen.

25 Maledetto sia chi prende presente, per far morir l’innocente. —E tutto il popolo dica: Amen.

26 Maledetto sia chi non avrà attenute le parole di questa Legge, per metterle in opera. —E tutto il popolo dica: Amen.

   


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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586. 13:7 It was granted it to make war with the saints and overcome them. This symbolically means that they attacked the Word's Divine truths and overturned them.

War symbolizes spiritual war, which is a war of falsity against truth, and of truth against falsity (no. 500). To make war, therefore, symbolically means to attack. Saints mean people who are governed by Divine truths from the Lord through the Word, and thus, abstractly from persons, Divine truths themselves (no. 173). Consequently, to overcome the saints means, symbolically, to cause truths not to prevail, thus to overturn them.

The following declaration in Daniel has a similar symbolic meaning, that the fourth beast to come up from the sea, which had a mouth speaking great words, "made war with the saints and prevailed" (Daniel 7:7-8, 21). To be shown that the male goat means faith divorced from charity, see The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem Regarding Faith, nos. 61-68.

The following has a similar meaning:

...a king shall arise, having fierce features, who understands intrigues... He shall destroy the mighty, and also the holy people... He shall even rise against the Prince of princes... He shall cause deceit to prosper under his hand. (Daniel 8:23-25)

The king is the male goat, as said in verse 21.

Very similar is symbolism found in the statement that "the beast that ascends out of the bottomless pit will make war against (the two witnesses), overcome them, and kill them" (Revelation 11:7, and no. 500). They will overcome them because the laity do not see through the clergy's sophistries, which they call mysteries, for the clergy wrap them up in appearances and fallacious reasonings. That is why the people said, "Who is like the beast? Who can fight against it?" (verse 4, and nos. 579-581).

[2] That saints (or holy ones) mean people governed by truths from the Lord through the Word can be seen from the passages cited in no. 173 above, and also from the following:

(Jesus said, "Father,) sanctify them in Your truth. Your Word is truth... ...I sanctify Myself, that they also may be sanctified in the truth... I in them, and You in Me. (John 17:17, 19, 23)

Jehovah came from Sinai..., He came from the ten thousands of the holy; from His right hand came a fiery law for them... All His saints are in Your hand...; each shall receive Your words. (Deuteronomy 33:2-3)

It is apparent from this that those people are called saints who are governed by Divine truths from the Lord through the Word. Moreover, those who live according to the commandments, that is, to the Word's truths, are called the saints or holy people of Jehovah (Leviticus 19:2, Deuteronomy 26:18-19). The Decalogue is the covenant they were to keep (see no. 529 above, and The Doctrine of Life for the New Jerusalem60).

It was for this reason that the place in the Tabernacle where the Ark was, containing the Decalogue, was called the holy of holies or the most holy place (Exodus 26:33-34).

[3] Those people who live according to the Word's truths are called saints, not because they are holy, but because the truths in them are holy; and truths are holy when they come from the Lord in them, and they have the Lord in them when they have His truths in them (John 15:7).

Because of their truths from the Lord, angels are called holy (Matthew 25:31, Luke 9:26). So, too, are prophets, (Luke 1:70, Revelation 18:20; 22:6). And also apostles (Revelation 18:20).

It is because of this that the Temple is called a holy temple (Psalms 5:7; 65:4). That Zion is called a holy mountain (Isaiah 65:11, Jeremiah 31:23, Ezekiel 20:40, Psalms 2:6; 3:4; 15:1). That Jerusalem is called a holy city (Isaiah 48:2; 64:10, Revelation 21:2, 10, Matthew 27:53). That the church is called a holy people (Isaiah 62:12; 63:18, Psalms 149:1), and also a kingdom of saints (Daniel 7:18, 22, 27).

They are called saints because in an abstract sense angels symbolize Divine truths from the Lord; prophets symbolizes doctrinal truths; apostles symbolize the church's truths; and the Temple symbolizes heaven and the church in respect to Divine truth, as do also Zion, Jerusalem, the people, and the kingdom of God.

That no one is holy in himself, not even angels, may be seen in Job 15:14-16. But they are holy from the Lord, because the Lord alone is holy (Revelation 15:4, no.173).

  
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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.

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Revelation 13

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1 Then I stood on the sand of the sea. I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads. On his horns were ten crowns, and on his heads, blasphemous names.

2 The beast which I saw was like a leopard, and his feet were like those of a bear, and his mouth like the mouth of a lion. The dragon gave him his power, his throne, and great authority.

3 One of his heads looked like it had been wounded fatally. His fatal wound was healed, and the whole earth marveled at the beast.

4 They worshiped the dragon, because he gave his authority to the beast, and they worshiped the beast, saying, "Who is like the beast? Who is able to make war with him?"

5 A mouth speaking great things and blasphemy was given to him. Authority to make war for forty-two months was given to him.

6 He opened his mouth for blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his dwelling, those who dwell in heaven.

7 It was given to him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them. Authority over every tribe, people, language, and nation was given to him.

8 All who dwell on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who has been killed.

9 If anyone has an ear, let him hear.

10 If anyone is to go into captivity, he will go into captivity. If anyone is to be killed with the sword, he must be killed. Here is the endurance and the faith of the saints.

11 I saw another beast coming up out of the earth. He had two horns like a lamb, and he spoke like a dragon.

12 He exercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence. He makes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast, whose fatal wound was healed.

13 He performs great signs, even making fire come down out of the sky to the earth in the sight of people.

14 He deceives my own people who dwell on the earth because of the signs he was granted to do in front of the beast; saying to those who dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast who had the sword wound and lived.

15 It was given to him to give breath to it, to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause as many as wouldn't worship the image of the beast to be killed.

16 He causes all, the small and the great, the rich and the poor, and the free and the slave, to be given marks on their right hands, or on their foreheads;

17 and that no one would be able to buy or to sell, unless he has that mark, the name of the beast or the number of his name.

18 Here is wisdom. He who has understanding, let him calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man. His number is six hundred sixty-six.