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1 POI fece l’Altar degli olocausti, di legno di Sittim; la sua lunghezza era di cinque cubiti, e la larghezza di cinque cubiti, tal ch’era quadrato, e l’altezza di tre cubiti.

2 E gli fece delle corna a’ suoi quattro canti, le quali erano tirate dall’Altare; e lo coperse di rame.

3 Fece eziandio tutti gli strumenti dell’Altare, i calderoni, e le palette, e i bacini, e le forcelle, e le cazze; egli fece tutti gli strumenti dell’Altare di rame.

4 Fece ancora all’Altare una grata di rame, di lavor reticolato, disotto al procinto dell’Altare, a basso, ed era fino a mezzo l’Altare.

5 E fondè quattro anelli, i quali egli mise a’ quattro canti della grata di rame, per mettervi dentro le stanghe.

6 Fece, oltre a ciò, le stanghe di legno di Sittim, e le coperse di rame.

7 E mise quelle stanghe dentro agli anelli, a’ lati dell’Altare, per portarlo con esse; egli fece l’Altare di tavole, vuoto.

8 Fece ancora di rame la Conca, e il suo piè di rame, degli specchi delle donne, che a certi tempi ordinati venivano a servire nell’entrata del Tabernacolo della convenenza.

9 Fece, oltre a ciò, il Cortile; dal lato Australe verso il Mezzodì v’erano cento cubiti di cortine di fin lino ritorto, per lo Cortile,

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

11 Così ancora dal lato Settentrionale v’erano cento cubiti di cortine, con le lor venti colonne, e i lor venti piedistalli, di rame; ma i capitelli delle colonne, e i lor fili, erano d’argento.

12 E dal lato Occidentale, v’erano cinquanta cubiti di cortine, con le lor dieci colonne, e i lor dieci piedistalli; e i capitelli delle colonne, e i lor fili, erano di argento.

13 E dal lato Orientale, verso il Levante, v’erano cinquanta cubiti di cortine.

14 Cioè, all’un de’ canti vi erano quindici cubiti di cortine, con le lor tre colonne, e i lor tre piedistalli;

15 e all’altro canto, cioè così di qua, come di là dell’entrata del Cortile, quindici cubiti di cortine, con le lor tre colonne, e i lor tre piedistalli.

16 Tutte le cortine del Cortile d’intorno erano di fin lino ritorto.

17 E i piedistalli e le colonne erano di rame; ma i capitelli delle colonne, e i lor fili erano di argento; tutte le colonne del Cortile aveano i capitelli coperti di argento; ma i lor fili erano di argento.

18 Fece ancora all’entrata del Cortile un tappeto di lavoro di ricamatore, di violato, e di porpora, e di scarlatto, e di fin lino ritorto, di venti cubiti di lunghezza, e di cinque cubiti d’altezza, nella larghezza corrispondente alle cortine del Cortile;

19 con le lor quattro colonne, e i lor quattro piedistalli, di rame; ma i lor capitelli erano di argento; esse aveano i lor capitelli coperti di argento, ma i lor fili erano di argento.

20 E fece tutti i piuoli del Tabernacolo, e del Cortile d’intorno, di rame.

21 QUESTE son le somme dell’oro, dell’argento, e del rame, impiegato intorno al Tabernacolo della Testimonianza, le quali furono fatte d’ordine di Mosè, per opera de’ Leviti, sotto la condotta d’Itamar, figliuol del Sacerdote Aaronne.

22 Delle quali Besaleel, figliuol di Uri, figliuol di Hur, della tribù di Giuda, fece tutte quelle cose che il Signore avea comandate a Mosè;

23 insieme con Oholiab, figliuol di Ahisamac, della tribù di Dan, e altri fabbri, e disegnatori, e ricamatori in violato, e in porpora, e in iscarlatto, e in fin lino.

24 Tutto l’oro che fu impiegato nell’opera, in tutto il lavorio del Santuario: l’oro di quell’offerta fu ventinove talenti, e settecentrenta sicli, a siclo di Santuario.

25 E l’argento degli annoverati d’infra la raunanza fu cento talenti, e mille settecensettanta cinque sicli, a siclo di Santuario;

26 prendendo un didramma per testa, ch’è la metà d’un siclo, a siclo di Santuario, da chiunque passava fra gli annoverati, dall’età di vent’anni in su, i quali furono seicentotremila cinquecentocinquanta.

27 Di questo argento cento talenti furono per fondere i piedistalli del Santuario, e i piedistalli della Cortina; cento talenti per cento piedistalli, un talento per piedistallo.

28 E con que’ mille settecensettanta cinque sicli, egli fece i capitelli alle colonne, e coperse i lor capitelli; e fece lor de’ fili.

29 E il rame dell’offerta fu settanta talenti, e duemila quattrocento sicli.

30 E d’esso fece i piedistalli dell’entrata del Tabernacolo della convenenza, e l’Altar di rame, e la sua grata di rame; e tutti gli strumenti dell’Altare;

31 e i piedistalli del Cortile, d’intorno, e i piedistalli dell’entrata del Cortile, e tutti i piuoli del Tabernacolo, e tutti i piuoli del Cortile d’intorno.

   


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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8408. 'When we sat by a pot of flesh' means a life according to their own pleasure, and such as they craved for. This is clear from the meaning of 'a pot' as a container of good, and in the contrary sense a container of evil, dealt with below; and from the meaning of 'flesh' as the heavenly proprium, thus good, and in the contrary sense as the proprium that is man's own, thus evil, also dealt with below. 1 And since 'flesh' means the proprium, 'sitting by a pot of flesh' means a life according to one's own pleasure, and such as one craves for; for that is the life of the proprium. The reason why 'a pot' means a container of good, and in the contrary sense a container of evil, is that 'the flesh' cooked in it means good and in the contrary sense evil. And having these meanings 'a pot' also means the bodily level or the natural level of the human mind, since these are containers of good or of evil. This being so, it is used in a general sense to mean a person, and in an even more general sense to mean a people or a city; and when 'a pot' is used to mean these, 'flesh' means the good or the evil that is in them, as in Ezekiel,

... the men who think iniquity and give wicked counsel in this city, saying, [The time] is not near; [the city] itself is the pot, we are the flesh. Therefore thus said the Lord Jehovih, Your slain whom you have placed in the midst of it, 2 they are the flesh, but it is the pot. Ezekiel 11:2-3, 7.

Here 'the pot' stands for the city or the people there, and 'the flesh' for evil, since 'the slain', who are called 'the flesh', are those among whom goodness and truth have been wiped out, 4503.

[2] In the same prophet,

Tell a parable against the house of rebellion, and say to them, Thus said the Lord Jehovih, Put on the pot, put it on, and also pour [water into it gather] the pieces into it - every good piece, the thigh and the shoulder. Fill it with the choice of the bones. The Lord Jehovih said, Woe to the city of blood, 3 to the pot whose scum is in it, and whose scum has not gone out of it! Ezekiel 24:3-6.

Here 'the pot' stands for the city or the people there, among whom there exists the evil that results when good is profaned. The good or flesh there is 'the thigh and the shoulder'; the evil is 'the scum' coming from it, and good when profaned is the scum remaining, which also accounts for the city's being called 'the city of blood'.

[3] In Jeremiah,

Jehovah said to Jeremiah, What do you see? I said, A puffed out pot do I see, its face towards the north. Then Jehovah said, From the north evil will be opened over all the inhabitants of the land. Jeremiah 1:11-14.

'A puffed-out pot' stands for a people whom falsities have taken possession of, and 'the north' for the sensory and bodily levels of the human mind, from which evil pours out. The subject here is the end of the Church, when what belongs to the external and therefore to sensory and bodily levels, together with falsity and evil, has dominion; for the Lord's Church moves in a series of stages from what is internal to what is external, at which point it breathes its last.

[4] In Zechariah,

On that day there will be on the horses' bells, Holiness to Jehovah. And the pots in the house of Jehovah will be as the bowls before the altar. And every pot in Jerusalem and Judah will be holiness to Jehovah Zebaoth; and all offering sacrifice will come, and take from them, and cook in them. Zechariah 14:20-21.

The subject here is the salvation of faithful believers, faithful believers being 'the pots', which they are called because they receive good from the Lord; and because they receive that good every 'pot' is said to be 'holiness to Jehovah'. 'The bells of the horses, with Holiness on them' are truths in agreement with good. Since 'pots' are recipients and containers of good, they like all the other vessels for the altar were made of bronze, Exodus 38:3; for 'bronze' means the good of the natural, 425, 1551.

[5] In addition to this 'the pot' may mean religious teachings because these hold the Church's good and truth within them. Such teachings are meant by 'the pot' in which at Elisha's command a soup was boiled for the sons of the prophets, described as follows in the second Book of Kings,

Elisha came again to Gilgal, when there was a famine in the land. When the sons of the prophets were sitting before him he said to his servant, Put on a great pot, and boil a soup for the sons of the prophets. One of them went out into the field to gather herbs and found a wild vine, and gathered from it wild gourds, and cut them up into the pot of soup. While they were eating of the soup they cried out, There is death in the pot, O man of God! But he said that they should bring flour, which he threw into the pot, and said, Pour out for the people and let them eat. Then there was not anything bad in the pot. 2 Kings 4:38-41.

It should be recognized that all Divine miracles have to do with things connected with the Lord's kingdom and the Church, 7337, 8364, and that 'Elisha' represents the Word of the Lord, 2762, and 'prophets' teachings derived from it, 2534, 7269. From this one may see what thing connected with the Church was represented by this miracle, which was that if the Church's good has been falsified it is made good again by means of truth from the Word. 'A famine' is a lack of cognitions or knowledge of truth and good; 'the pot' is religious teachings; 'soup' is the good of the Jewish Church's outward religious observances; 'gourds from a wild vine' is falsification; and 'flour' is truth from the Word, 2177, used to make good again that which has been falsified, meant by 'death in the pot'. The reason why 'pots' means containers of good is that they were included among the utensils in which food was prepared, and 'food', every kind of it, means such things as nourish the soul, that is, affections for good and truth, 681, 1480, 3114, 4792, 5147, 5293, 5340, 5342, 5576, 5410, 5915.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary describes proprium as A distinctive characteristic; the essential nature, selfhood. It is a Latin word meaning 'one's own (thing)'. Swedenborg uses it in the specialized sense of 'what is of the self.'

2. i.e. the city

3. literally, bloods

  
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