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1 ALLORA Iddio pronunziò tutte queste parole, dicendo:

2 Io sono il Signore Iddio tuo, che ti ho tratto fuor del paese di Egitto, della casa di servitù.

3 Non avere altri dii nel mio cospetto.

4 Non farti scultura alcuna, nè immagine alcuna di cosa che sia in cielo di sopra, nè di cosa che sia in terra di sotto, nè di cosa che sia nell’acque di sotto alla terra.

5 Non adorar quelle cose, e non servir loro; perciocchè io, il Signore Iddio tuo, son Dio geloso, che visito l’iniquità de’ padri sopra i figliuoli fino alla terza e alla quarta generazione di coloro che m’odiano.

6 Ed uso benignità in mille generazioni verso coloro che mi amano, e osservano i miei comandamenti.

7 Non usare il Nome del Signore Iddio tuo in vano; perciocchè il Signore non terrà innocente chi avrà usato il suo Nome in vano.

8 Ricordati del giorno del riposo, per santificarlo.

9 Lavora sei giorni, e fa’ in essi ogni opera tua.

10 Ma il settimo giorno è il riposo al Signore Iddio tuo; non fare in esso lavoro alcuno, nè tu, nè il tuo figliuolo, nè la tua figliuola, nè il tuo servo, nè la tua serva, nè il tuo bestiame, nè il tuo forestiere ch’è dentro alle tue porte.

11 Perciocchè in sei giorni il Signore fece il cielo e la terra, e il mare, e tutto ciò ch’è in essi, e si riposò al settimo giorno; perciò, il Signore ha benedetto il giorno del riposo e l’ha santificato.

12 Onora tuo padre e tua madre; acciocchè i tuoi giorni sieno prolungati sopra la terra, la quale il Signore Iddio tuo ti .

13 Non uccidere.

14 Non commettere adulterio.

15 Non furare.

16 Non dir falsa testimonianza contro al tuo prossimo.

17 Non concupire la casa del tuo prossimo; non concupir la moglie del tuo prossimo; nè il suo servo, nè la sua serva, nè il suo bue, nè il suo asino, nè cosa alcuna che sia del tuo prossimo.

18 Or tutto il popolo vedeva i tuoni, e i lampi, e il suon della tromba, e il monte fumante; e veggendo queste cose, tremava, e se ne stava lungi;

19 e disse a Mosè: Parla tu con noi, e noi ascolteremo; e non parli Iddio con noi, chè talora noi non muoiamo.

20 E Mosè disse al popolo: Non temiate; perciocchè Iddio è venuto per provarvi, e affinchè il suo timore sia davanti agli occhi vostri, acciocchè non pecchiate.

21 Il popolo adunque si fermò da lungi; e Mosè si accostò alla caligine; nella quale Iddio era.

22 E il Signore disse a Mosè: Di’ così a’ figliuoli d’Israele: Voi avete veduto che io ho parlato a voi dal cielo.

23 Non fate alcun dio meco; non vi fate dii di argento, nè dii d’oro.

24 Fammi un altar di terra, e sacrifica sopra esso i tuoi olocausti, e i tuoi sacrificii da render grazie, le tue pecore, e i tuoi buoi; in qualunque luogo io farò ricordare il mio Nome, io verrò a te, e ti benedirò.

25 E se pur tu mi fai un altar di pietre, non fabbricarlo di pietre conce a scarpello; quando tu vi avrai fatto passar lo scarpello sopra, tu l’avrai contaminate.

26 E non salir per gradi al mio altare; acciocchè non si scuopra la tua nudità sopra esso.

   


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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976. And thou hast given them blood to drink, signifies that consequently such are in the falsities of evil. This is evident from the signification of "drinking blood," as being to imbibe falsities, for "blood" signifies truth falsified, and "to drink" signifies to imbibe. And as falsified truth is the falsity of evil, therefore here "to drink blood" signifies to be in the falsities of evil. Falsified truth is the falsity of evil, because evil falsifies truth. That such are in falsities of evil is here attributed to the Lord; for it is said, "Thou hast given them blood to drink," as if the Lord had done it in the way of vengeance, although the Lord never avenges the evil done to Him by man. This makes clear that an interior sense lies hidden in these same words, and that this sense appears when the sense of the letter, which is that of apparent truth, is put off. When that sense is put off the spiritual sense comes forth, which is, that the Lord did not give them blood to drink, but that man gives himself blood to drink; in other words, that from the evil in which he is man has falsified the Word, and consequently is in the falsities of evil.

(Continuation respecting the Fifth Commandment)

[2] Take judges for an example: All who make justice venal by loving the function of judging for the sake of gain from judgments, and not for the sake of uses to their country, are thieves, and their judgments are thefts. It is similar if they judge according to friendships and favors, for friendships and favors are also profits and gains. When these are the end and judgments are the means, all things that they do are evil, and are what are meant in the Word by "evil works" and "not doing judgment and justice, perverting the right of the poor; of the needy, of the fatherless, of the widow, and of the innocent." Yea, even if they do justice, and yet regard profit as the end they indeed do a good work, but to them it is not good; for justice, which is Divine, is to them a means, and such gain is the end; and that which is made the end is everything, while that which is made the means is nothing except so far as it is serviceable to the end. Consequently after death such judges continue to love what is unjust as well as what is just, and are condemned to hell as thieves. I speak this from what I have seen. These are such as do not abstain from evils because they are sins, but only because they fear the punishments of the civil law and the loss of reputation, honor, and office, and thus of gain.

[3] It is otherwise with judges who abstain from evils as sins and shun them because they are contrary to the Divine laws, and thus contrary to God. These have justice for their end, and they venerate, cherish, and love it as Divine. In justice they see God, as it were, because everything just, like everything good and true, is from God. They always join justice with equity and equity with justice, knowing that justice must be of equity in order to be justice, and that equity must be of justice in order to be equity, the same as truth is of good and good is of truth. As such make justice their end, their giving judgments is doing good works; yet these works, which are judgments, are to them more or less good as there is in their judgments more or less of regard for friendship, favor or gain; also as there is more or less in them of a love of what is just for the sake of the public good, which is that justice may reign among their fellow-citizens, and that those who live according to the laws may have security. Such judges have eternal life in a degree that accords with their works; for they are judged as they themselves have judged.

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Foundation for their permission to use this translation.