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1 FA’, oltre a ciò, un Altare di legno di Sittim, la cui lunghezza sia di cinque cubiti, e la larghezza di cinque cubiti; talchè sia quadrato; e l’altezza di tre cubiti.

2 E fagli delle corna a’ quattro canti, le quali sieno dell’Altare stesso; e coprilo di rame.

3 Fagli eziandio de’ calderoni per raccoglier le sue ceneri, e delle palette, e de’ bacini, e delle forcelle, e delle cazze; fa’ tutti gli stumenti d’esso di rame.

4 Fagli ancora una grata di rame, di lavor reticolato; e fa’ disopra di quella grata quattro anelli di rame, sopra le quattro estremità di essa.

5 E mettila disotto al procinto dell’Altare a basso; e sia quella rete fino a mezzo l’Altare.

6 Fa’ ancora delle stanghe per l’Altare, di legno di Sittim, e coprile di rame.

7 E mettansi quelle stanghe di esso agli anelli; e sieno le stanghe a’ due lati dell’Altare, quando si avrà da portare.

8 Fallo di tavole, vuoto; facciasi come ti è stato mostrato in sul monte.

9 Fa’ ancora il Cortile del Tabernacolo; dal lato Australe verso il Mezzodì abbia il Cortile cento cubiti di lunghezza di cortine di fin lino ritorto; abbiane tanto da un lato;

10 con le sue venti colonne, e i lor venti piedistalli di rame; e sieno i capitelli, e i fili delle colonne di argento.

11 Così ancora dal lato Settentrionale per lungo, abbia la lunghezza di cento cubiti di cortine; con lor venti colonne, e i lor venti piedistalli di rame; e sieno i capitelli, e i fili delle colonne di argento.

12 E per largo, dal lato Occidentale, abbia il Cortile cinquanta cubiti di cortine colle lor dieci colonne, e dieci piedistalli.

13 E per largo dal lato Orientale, verso il Levante, abbia il Cortile parimente cinquanta cubiti di cortine;

14 cioè all’un de’ canti quindici cubiti di cortine, colle lor tre colonne, e tre piedistalli;

15 e dall’altro canto, parimente quindici cubiti di cortine, colle lor tre colonne, e tre piedistalli.

16 E all’entrata del Cortile siavi un tappeto di venti cubiti, di violato, e di porpora, e di scarlatto, e di fin lino ritorto, di lavoro di ricamatore, colle lor quattro colonne, e quattro piedistalli.

17 Abbiano tutte le colonne del Cortile d’intorno de’ fili di argento; e sieno i lor capitelli di argento, e i lor piedistalli di rame.

18 Sia la lunghezza del Cortile di cento cubiti, e la larghezza, da un lato e dall’altro, di cinquanta cubiti, e l’altezza di cinque cubiti; sieno le cortine di fin lino ritorto, e i piedistalli delle colonne di rame.

19 Sieno di rame tutti gli arredi del Tabernacolo, per qualunque suo servigio, come ancora tutti i suoi piuoli, e tutti i piuoli del Cortile.

20 Comanda ancora a’ figliuoli d’Israele che ti portino dell’olio di uliva puro, vergine, per la lumiera, per accendere del continuo le lampane.

21 Mettanle in ordine Aaronne ed i suoi figliuoli, per ardere dalla sera fino alla mattina, davanti al Signore, nel Tabernacolo della convenenza, di fuori della cortina che ha da essere davanti alla Testimonianza. Sia questo uno statuto perpetuo, da osservarsi da’ figliuoli d’Israele per le loro età.

   

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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Apocalypse Explained # 219

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219. (Verse 12) He that overcometh, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God. That this signifies that those who persevere will be in Divine truth in heaven is evident from the signification of overcoming, as denoting to persevere in the genuine affection of truth (concerning which see above, n. 128); in this case, in faith from charity, because that faith is treated of in what is written to the angel of this church (as may be seen above, n. 203); and from the signification of pillar, as denoting Divine truth sustaining; also from the signification of the temple of my God, as being, in the highest sense, the Divine Human of the Lord, and, in the relative sense, the spiritual kingdom of the Lord, thus the heaven constituting that kingdom, which will be treated of in what follows. The reason why a pillar in the temple denotes Divine truth sustaining, is that temple signifies heaven, and heaven is heaven from the Divine truth which proceeds from the Lord. For by heaven are meant all the angels, because these constitute heaven, whence it is called heaven; and they are angels in so far as they receive the Divine truth which proceeds from the Lord: hence angels in the Word also signify Divine truth (as may be seen above, n. 130, 200). Now because heaven is Divine truth, and since temple signifies heaven, it follows that all the things of the temple signify those things that belong to Divine truth, and that the pillars therein signify Divine truth sustaining.

Divine truths sustaining are, in general, truths of a lower degree, because these sustain those of a higher degree; for there are Divine truths lower and higher, as there are heavens lower and higher; thus there are degrees of the same (see in the work, Heaven and Hell 38, 208, 209, 211). The heavens which exist in a lower degree sustain those of a higher degree; here, therefore, by the Lord's making him that overcometh a pillar in the temple is signified that they will be in the lower heaven. Those who are in the faith of charity also are in the lower heaven, which is called the spiritual heaven; but those who are in love to the Lord are in the higher heaven, which is called the celestial heaven, and this is sustained by the lower or spiritual heaven. (How these things are, may be more clearly seen, as they are shown in three articles, in the work, Heaven and Hell, that is, in the article where it is shown that the Divine of the Lord in heaven is love to Him and charity towards the neighbour, n. 13-19; in another, where it is shown that heaven is distinguished into two kingdoms, the celestial and the spiritual, n. 20-28; and in a third, where it is shown that there are three heavens, 29-40.)

[2] Pillars are mentioned in various parts of the Word, and thereby are signified truths of a lower degree, because they sustain those of a higher degree. That the former truths are signified in the Word by pillars is evident from the following passages. In Jeremiah:

"Behold, I have given thee this day for a defenced city, and for a pillar of iron, and for walls of brass against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against the princes, and against the priests thereof, and against the people of the land, that they may fight against thee and not prevail" (1:18, 19).

These things were said to the prophet, because by all the prophets are signified the doctrines of Divine truth; and because the subject here treated of is the church in which Divine truths are falsified, it is therefore said: "Behold, I have given thee this day for a defenced city, and a pillar of iron and walls of brass against the whole land."

By a defenced city is signified the doctrine of truth; by a pillar of iron, truth sustaining it; by walls of brass, the good which defends; and by land, the church. It is said, also, "Against the kings of Judah, against the princes, against the priests thereof, and against the people of the land"; and by the kings of Judah, and by princes, are signified truths falsified; by priests, goods adulterated; and by the people of the land, falsities in general; concerning which it is intimated that they should fight against truths but should not prevail.

[3] In the same:

"Appoint unto thee signs, place for thyself pillars, set thine heart to the narrow way; go the way; return, O virgin of Israel! return to thy cities" (31:21).

The restitution of the church is here treated of. The virgin of Israel signifies the church; to appoint signs, and to place pillars, signifies instruction in those things that are the fundamentals of the church, called pillars because they sustain; to set the heart to the narrow way signifies the affection of truth leading to life.

[4] In David:

"I will judge in uprightness the faint of the earth, and all the inhabitants thereof; I will establish the pillars thereof" (Psalms 75:2, 3).

Here, by the faint of the earth are signified those of the church who are not in truths, but who nevertheless desire them. To establish, or strengthen, the pillars of the earth signifies to support the church by those truths upon which it is founded. In Job:

"Who maketh the earth to tremble out of its place, so that the pillars thereof tremble" (Job 9:6).

By the earth is here signified the church, and by pillars the truths which sustain it. That by "the pillar of the court of the tent," mentioned in Exodus 27:10-12, 14-17, are also signified lower truths sustaining higher ones, may be seen in Arcana Coelestia, in the explanation of that chapter and those verses. Similar truths are signified by the pillars of the house of the forest of Lebanon, built by Solomon, mentioned in 1 Kings 7:2, 6.

[5] Such also is the signification of the two pillars which Solomon erected in the porch of the temple, and which are thus described in the first book of Kings.

He "formed two pillars of brass, of eighteen cubits high apiece; and a line of twelve cubits did compass the second pillar about. And he made two crowns of molten brass, to set upon the tops of the pillars: seven for the one crown, and seven for the other crown. And he set up the pillars in the porch of the temple; and he set up the right pillar, and called the name thereof Jachin; and he set up the left pillar, and called the name thereof Boaz" (7:15-22).

Because the temple signified heaven, as will be shown presently, therefore all the things of the temple signified the things of heaven, thus those of the Divine truth; for, as said above, heaven is heaven from the Divine truth proceeding from the Lord; its porch signified the things of the ultimate heaven, and because this sustains the two higher heavens, therefore those two pillars were placed in the porch.

  
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Translation by Isaiah Tansley. Many thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.

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