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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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1298. 'They had brick for stone' means that they had falsity in place of truth. This is clear from the meaning of 'brick' as falsity, dealt with just above, and also from the meaning of 'stone' in the broad sense as truth, dealt with already in 643. The reason 'stones' meant truth was that the most ancient people used to mark out boundaries by means of stones and raise up stones to testify that something was so, that is, was the truth. This is clear from the stone which Jacob set up as a pillar, Genesis 28:22; 35:14; from the pillar of stones placed between Laban and Jacob, Genesis 31:46-47, 52; and from the altar which the children of Reuben, Gad, and Manasseh erected beside the Jordan as an altar of witness, Joshua 22:10, 28, 34. Consequently 'stones' in the Word means truths, so much so that not only the stones of the altar but also the precious stones in the shoulder-pieces of Aaron's ephod and in the breastplate of judgement meant the holy truths of love.

[2] Regarding the altar, when sacrificial worship on altars was introduced, an altar in that case meant representative worship of the Lord in general. 'The stones' themselves however meant the holy truths belonging to that worship. This was why it was commanded that the altar had to be built of whole and not of hewn stones, and why it was forbidden to use any iron tool on them, Deuteronomy 27:5-7; Joshua 8:31. The reason was that hewn stones, and those on which an iron tool had been used, meant artificialities and thus fabrications in worship. That is to say, they meant things that derive from the proprium, or from the inventions of man's own thought and heart, which was to profane worship, as is clearly stated in Exodus 20:25. For the same reason no tool of iron was used on the stones of the Temple, 1 Kings 6:7.

[3] That the precious stones set in the shoulder-pieces of Aaron's ephod and in the breastplate of judgement in a similar way meant holy truths has been shown already in 114. This is clear also in Isaiah,

Behold, I will set your stones in carbuncle and lay your foundations in sapphires; and I will make your suns (windows) of ruby, and your gates into precious stones, and all your border into pleasant stones And all your sons will be taught by Jehovah, and great will be the peace of your sons. Isaiah 54:11-13

The stones mentioned here stand for holy truths, and this is why it is said that 'all your sons will be taught by Jehovah'. It is also the reason why it is said in John that the foundations of the wall of the city, holy Jerusalem, were adorned with every kind of precious stone, which are each mentioned by name, Revelation 21:19-20. 'The holy Jerusalem' stands for the Lord's kingdom in heaven and on earth, the foundations of which kingdom are holy truths. Holy truths were similarly meant by the tables of stone on which the commandments of the Law, or Ten Commandments, were written. This was why they were made of stone or had a stone base, concerning which see Exodus 24:12; 31:18; 34:1; Deuteronomy 5:22; 10:1; for the commandments themselves are nothing else than truths of faith.

[4] Now because stones in ancient times meant truths, and because later on when worship on pillars, on altars, and in the Temple began, pillars, altars, and the Temple meant holy truths, the Lord also is therefore called 'a Stone': In Moses,

The Mighty One of Jacob - from there is the Shepherd, the Stone of Israel. Genesis 49:24.

In Isaiah,

The Lord Jehovih said, I am laying in Zion for a foundation a Stone, a tested Corner-Stone, precious, of sure foundation. Isaiah 28:16.

In David,

The Stone which the builders rejected has become the head of the corner Psalms 118:22.

The same is meant in Daniel 2:34-35, 45, by the stone cut out of the rock which smashed Nebuchadnezzar's statue to pieces.

[5] That 'stones' means truths is clear in Isaiah,

By this the iniquity of Jacob will be expiated, and this will be the full fruit to remove his sin, when He makes all the stones of the altar like chalk-stones scattered about. Isaiah 27:9.

'The stones of the altar' stands for truths in worship that have been dissipated. In the same prophet,

Make level the way of the people; level out, level out the highway; gather out the stones. Isaiah 62:10.

'The way' and 'the stones' stand for truths. In Jeremiah,

I am against you, O destroying mountain. I will roll you down from the rocks and I will make you into a mountain of burning. And they will not take from you a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations. Jeremiah 51:25-26.

This refers to Babel. 'A mountain of burning' is self-love. 'Taking no stone from it' means that there is no truth from this source.

  
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