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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 Revealed # 450

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450. Having breastplates that were fiery, hyacinthine and sulfurous. This symbolizes their fanciful and illusory arguments springing from a hellish love and their own intelligence, and from the attendant lusts.

Breastplates symbolize the arguments people use to do battle for faith alone (no. 436). Fire symbolizes heavenly love, and in an opposite sense, hellish love (nos. 452, 468, 494). Hyacinthine symbolizes intelligence springing from a spiritual love, and in an opposite sense, intelligence springing from a hellish love, which is one's own inherent intelligence, as explained below. And sulfur symbolizes lust arising from that hellish love and expressed through their own inherent intelligence (no. 452). It follows from this that breastplates fiery, hyacinthine and sulfurous have the symbolic meaning stated.

[2] The reason their arguments in defense of faith alone are thus described is that all those people who believe themselves to be justified by faith alone, which is to say, absolved from sins, never give any thought to repentance, and an impenitent person engages in nothing but sins. All sins, moreover, spring from and so draw their character from a hellish love, from one's own inherent intelligence, and from the attendant lusts; and people caught up in them not only act on them, but they also speak, indeed think and will, in conformity with them, and accordingly reason and argue in conformity with them. These are who they are because they are their life; but who they are is a devil, and their life a hellish one.

In actual fact, however, people who live a moral life solely for the sake of themselves and the world do not know this. The reason is that although they inwardly are such as described, in outward appearances they are like people who live a Christian life. But they should know that when anyone of them dies, he comes into his interior life, because it is the life of his spirit, and he is his internal self. Moreover, his inner character then accommodates his outward one to itself, and they become alike. Consequently the moral virtues of these people's life in the world then become like the scales of fish that are scraped away.

The case is altogether different with people who regard the precepts of a moral life as Divine, and who make them at the same time civil precepts because they are expressive of a love for the neighbor.

[3] Hyacinthine symbolizes intelligence springing from the affection of a spiritual love because this color takes its hue from the redness of fire and the whiteness of light; and fire symbolizes love, and light intelligence. This intelligence is symbolically meant by the hyacinthine blue in the coverings and veils of the tabernacle (Exodus 26:31, 36; 27:16), and in Aaron's ephod (Exodus 28:6, 15); by the cloth of hyacinthine blue placed on the ark, table, lampstand, and altar [in the tabernacle] when the people prepared to journey (Numbers 4:6-7, 9, 11-12); and by the blue stuff in Ezekiel 27:7, 24.

On other hand, intelligence springing from the affection of a hellish love is symbolically meant by hyacinthine in Ezekiel 23:

Oholah (or Samaria) played the harlot... and she doted on her lovers, the neighboring Assyrians, clothed in hyacinthine blue..., horsemen riding on horses. (Ezekiel 23:4-6)

Thus is described a church which by the reasonings of its own inherent intelligence had falsified the Word's truths.

And in Jeremiah:

They are altogether foolish and grow stupid; the teaching of vanities is wood. Beaten silver... is brought from Tarshish..., the work of the craftsman and the hands of the metalsmith; hyacinthine blue and purple are their clothing, all the work of skillful men. (Jeremiah 10:8-9)

The work of the craftsman and the hands of the metalsmith, and all the work of skillful men, symbolize here that they spring from their own inherent intelligence.

  
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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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Apocalypse Revealed # 451

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451. And the heads of the horses were like the heads of lions. This symbolizes their delusions with respect to faith alone, as though they had power.

Heads symbolize the fanciful and illusory ideas that these people have regarding faith alone, which are the subject here, and for which we use the single term delusions. Horses symbolize the reasonings in the interiors of their minds, which are of this character (no. 449). Lions symbolize power (no. 241). It is a power based on fallacies, because these people are sense-oriented, and sense-oriented people base their reasoning on fallacies, which they use to persuade and captivate (no. 424).

[2] That their arguments in defense of faith alone are fanciful and illusory is something everyone can see who elevates his mind to some degree. What is faith in practice or faith as a condition but something illusory according to their notion of them? Who among them knows anything about putting faith into practice? And what constitutes faith as a condition when nothing good enters from the person into a faith in practice?

What is an instantaneous forgiveness of sins and consequent salvation but an illusory idea of the imagination? It is the "fiery flying serpent" 1 in the church, as may be seen in Angelic Wisdom Regarding Divine Providence 340.

An attribution of immunity, merit, righteousness, and sanctification by imputation - what are these but illusory notions? See The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem Regarding the Lord 18.

[3] What else is a Divine operation in someone's internal constituents without the person's cooperation as though of himself in external actions? For the idea that an internal condition can be divorced from its external expression, so that there is no conjunction of the two, is nothing but an illusory notion. See no. 606 below.

Faith divorced from charity is such an illusory notion, for charity expressed in works contains and supports faith. It is its soil and ground, its essence and life. In a word, faith arising from charity is the real person; but faith divorced from charity is a mirage, and a figment of the imagination, like a bubble floating in the air.

But perhaps someone will say, "If you detach the intellect from faith, you will not see any illusions." However, he should know that if he can detach the intellect from faith, he can also impose on any religious tenet a thousand illusory notions, as Roman Catholics have done for centuries.

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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.