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Deuteronomio 6

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1 OR questi sono i comandamenti, gli statuti e le leggi, che il Signore Iddio vostro mi ha comandato di insegnarvi, acciocchè le mettiate in opera, nel paese al quale voi passate per possederlo;

2 acciocchè tu tema il Signore Iddio tuo, osservando tutti i suoi statuti e comandamenti, i quali io ti do; tu, e il tuo figliuolo, e il figliuolo del tuo figliuolo, tutto il tempo della tua vita; e acciocchè i tuoi giorni sieno prolungati.

3 Ascolta adunque o Israele, e osserva di metterli in opera, acciocchè ti sia bene, e acciocchè siate grandemente moltiplicati, nel paese stillante latte e miele, come il Signore Iddio dei tuoi padri ti ha detto.

4 Ascolta, Israele: Il Signore Iddio nostro è l’unico Signore;

5 Ama dunque il Signore Iddio tuo con tutto il tuo cuore, con tutta l’anima tua, e con tutto il tuo maggior potere.

6 E dimorino queste parole, le quali oggi ti comando, nel tuo cuore;

7 e inculcale a’ tuoi figliuoli, e ragionane quando tu sarai a sedere in casa tua, e quando tu camminerai per via, e quando tu giacerai, e quando tu ti leverai.

8 E legale per segnale, in su la tua mano, e sieno per frontali fra’ tuoi occhi.

9 Scrivile ancora sopra gli stipiti della tua casa, e sopra le tue porte.

10 E quando il Signore Iddio tuo ti avrà introdotto nel paese, del quale egli ha giurato a’ tuoi padri, ad Abrahamo, a Isacco, e a Giacobbe, ch’egli te lo darebbe, nelle città grandi e belle, le quali tu non hai edificate;

11 e nelle case piene d’ogni bene, le quali tu non hai empiute; e a’ pozzi cavati, che tu non hai cavati; e alle vigne, e agli uliveti, che tu non hai piantati; e tu avrai mangiato, e sarai sazio;

12 guardati che talora tu non dimentichi il Signore, che ti ha tratto fuor del paese di Egitto, della casa di servitù.

13 Temi il Signore Iddio tuo, e a lui servi,

14 e giura per lo suo Nome. Non andate dietro agl’iddii stranieri, d’infra gl’iddii de’ popoli che saranno d’intorno a voi;

15 perciocchè il Signore Iddio tuo è un Dio geloso nel mezzo di te; che talora l’ira del Signore Iddio tuo non si accenda contro a te, e ch’egli non ti distrugga d’in su la terra.

16 Non tentate il Signore Iddio vostro, come voi lo tentaste in Massa.

17 Del tutto osservate i comandamenti del Signore Iddio vostro, e le sue testimonianze, e i suoi statuti ch’egli vi ha dati.

18 E fa’ ciò che è diritto e buono negli occhi del Signore; acciocchè ti sia bene, e che tu entri nel buon paese, il quale il Signore ha giurato a’ tuoi padri; e che tu lo possegga.

19 Acciocchè egli cacci d’innanzi a te tutti i tuoi nemici; come il Signore ne ha parlato.

20 Quando il tuo figliuolo per l’innanzi ti domanderà, dicendo: Che voglion dire queste testimonianze, e questi statuti, e queste leggi, che il Signore Iddio nostro vi ha date?

21 Di’ al tuo figliuolo: Noi eravamo servi di Faraone in Egitto; e il Signore ci trasse fuor di Egitto con potente mano.

22 E il Signore fece miracoli, e prodigi grandi e dannosi sopra gli Egizj, e sopra Faraone, e sopra tutta la sua casa, davanti agli occhi nostri.

23 E ci trasse fuor di là, per condurci nel paese il quale egli avea giurato a’ nostri padri, e per darcelo.

24 E il Signore ci comandò di mettere in opera tutti questi statuti, per temere il Signore Iddio nostro, acciocchè ci sia bene in perpetuo, e siamo conservati in vita, come siamo oggi.

25 E ciò ci sarà giustizia, quando noi osserveremo di mettere in opera tutti questi comandamenti, nel cospetto del Signore Iddio nostro, siccome egli ci ha comandato.

   


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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7847. 'And put it onto the two doorposts and onto the lintel' means the truths and forms of good of the natural. This is clear from the meaning of 'the doorposts' as the truths of the natural; and from the meaning of 'the lintel' as the forms of good belonging to it. The reason why the doorposts and lintel have this meaning is that 'the house' means the actual person or his mind, and parts forming the door mean the things that serve to lead into it. These, it may be evident, are the truths and forms of good of the natural; for the natural man receives instruction first, before the rational man, and the ideas he learns during that time are natural ones, into which spiritual ideas, which are more internal, are gradually instilled. From this one may see in what way the truths and forms of good of the natural serve to lead in. Furthermore lintel and doorposts are similar in meaning to a person's frontlets and hands; for it is in the nature of angelic ideas to associate natural objects with human characteristics. The reason for this is that the spiritual world or heaven is in form like a person, and therefore all things in that world - that is, all spiritual realities, which are truths and forms of good - have connection with that form, as has been shown where correspondences are the subject, at the ends of quite a number of chapters. And since in angelic ideas natural objects become spiritual realities a house does so too. To them it is a person's mind; the bedrooms and other rooms are the inner parts of the mind, and the windows, doors, doorposts, and lintels are the outer parts leading in. Since angelic ideas are like this they are also filled with life; and that being so, things which in the natural world are lifeless objects become objects filled with life when they pass into the spiritual world. For everything spiritual is filled with life since it comes from the Lord.

[2] The fact that 'doorposts and lintel' is similar in meaning to a person's 'frontlets and hands' may be seen from the following words in Moses,

You shall love Jehovah your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength. You are to bind them as a sign onto your hand, and let them be as frontlets between your eyes. And you are to write them onto the doorposts of your house, and on your gates. Deuteronomy 6:5, 8-9; 11:13, 18, 20.

Since they hold a similar meaning to each other both observances have been stated here.

[3] As regards the meaning of 'lintel and doorposts' in the spiritual sense as the forms of good and the truths of the natural which lead into spiritual things, this is clear from the description in Ezekiel of the new temple, which means the spiritual Church. There reference is made many times to doorposts and lintels, objects which were also measured. This would never have been done unless those details had also meant something descriptive of the Church or of heaven, that is, something spiritual, such as the following details in that prophet,

The priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering, and put it onto the doorpost of the house, and onto the four corners of the ledge of the altar, and onto the post of the gate of the inner court, on the first day of the month. Ezekiel 45:19.

[4] In the same prophet,

The prince shall enter by the way of the portico outside, and stand by the gate post; and the priests shall make his burnt offering. At that time he shall worship on the threshold of the gate. Ezekiel 46:2.

Anyone may recognize that 'the temple' here is not used to mean the temple but the Lord's Church, for the kinds of things described here in a number of chapters have never come about, and never will. In the highest sense 'the temple' is used to mean the Lord's Divine Human. He Himself teaches this meaning in John 2:19, 21-22; and in the representative sense 'the temple is therefore used to mean His Church. For statements that the angel measured the lintels of this new temple, see Ezekiel 40:9-10, 14, 16, 24; 41:21, 25. This measuring of them would have had no importance unless 'the lintels', and also the numbers involved, had meant some aspect of the Church. Because 'the doorposts and lintel' meant the truths and forms of good in the natural, which serve to lead in, the ones in this new temple were square, Ezekiel 41:21. For the same reason the doorposts in Solomon's temple were made of planks of olive wood, 1 Kings 6:31, 33. 'Olive wood' meant the good of truth or the good which is that of the spiritual Church.

  
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