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Ezechiele 24

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1 OR nell’anno nono, del decimo mese, nel decimo giorno del mese, la parola del Signore mi fu indirizzata dicendo:

2 Figliuol d’uomo, scriviti il nome di questo giorno, di questo stesso giorno; il re di Babilonia si è posto sopra Gerusalemme questo stesso giorno.

3 E proponi una parabola a questa casa ribelle, e di’ loro: Così ha detto il Signore Iddio: Metti la pignatta al fuoco; mettivela ed anche versavi dentro dell’acqua.

4 Raccogli i suoi pezzi di carne dentro di essa, ogni buon pezzo, coscia, e spalla; empila della scelta delle ossa.

5 Prendi delle migliori bestie della greggia, e anche disponi le ossa nel fondo di essa; falla bollire a gran bollori, e sieno anche le sue ossa cotte dentro di essa.

6 Perciò, così ha detto il Signore Iddio: Guai alla città di sangue, alla pignatta, che ha dentro di sè la sua bruttura, la cui bruttura non è uscita fuori! vuotala a pezzo a pezzo; non traggasi la sorte sopra essa.

7 Conciossiachè il suo sangue sia stato in mezzo di lei; essa l’ha posto sopra un sasso liscio, non l’ha sparso in terra, per coprirlo di polvere.

8 Io altresì, montando in ira, per far vendetta, metterò il suo sangue sopra un sasso liscio, acciocchè non sia coperto.

9 Perciò, così ha detto il Signore Iddio: Guai alla città di sangue! anch’io farò una grande stipa;

10 mettendovi legne assai, accendendo il fuoco, e facendo consumar la carne, e riducendola ad esser come una composizione di odori; talchè anche le ossa saranno arse.

11 Poi facendola star vuota sopra le sue brace; acciocchè si riscaldi, e sia bruciato il suo rame, e che la sua bruttura sia strutta in mezzo di essa, e che la sua schiuma sia consumata.

12 Ella si è affaticata intorno a cose vane, e la sua grossa schiuma non è uscita fuor di lei; la sua schiuma non è uscita per lo fuoco.

13 Vi è scelleratezza nella tua immondizia; perciocchè io ti avea nettata, e tu non sei stata netta; tu non sarai più nettata della tua immondizia, finchè io abbia acquetata l’ira mia sopra te.

14 Io, il Signore, ho parlato; la cosa avverrà, ed io l’eseguirò; io non la rivocherò, e non risparmierò, e non mi pentirò. Coloro ti giudicheranno secondo le tue vie, e secondo i tuoi fatti, dice il Signore Iddio.

15 La parola del Signore mi fu ancora indirizzata, dicendo:

16 Figliuol d’uomo, ecco, io ti tolgo il desio de’ tuoi occhi, per una piaga; e tu, non farne cordoglio, e non piangerne, e non ispanderne lagrime.

17 Rimanti di sospirare, non far duolo di morto; legati la tua tiara in sul capo, e mettiti le tue scarpe ne’ piedi, e non velarti il labbro disopra, e non mangiare il pan delle persone afflitte.

18 Io parlai adunque la mattina al popolo, e la sera la mia moglie morì; e la mattina seguente feci come mi era stato comandato.

19 E il popolo mi disse: Non ci dichiarerai tu ciò che ci significano queste cose che tu fai?

20 Ed io risposi loro: La parola del Signore mi è stata indirizzata, dicendo:

21 Di’ alla casa d’Israele: Così ha detto il Signore Iddio: Ecco, io profano il mio santuario, la magnificenza della vostra forza, il desio degli occhi vostri, e la tenerezza delle anime vostre; e i vostri figliuoli, e le vostre figliuole, che voi avete lasciate, caderanno per la spada.

22 E voi farete come ho fatto io; voi non vi velerete il labbro di sopra, e non mangerete il pane delle persone afflitte;

23 ed avrete le vostre tiare in su la testa, e le vostre scarpe ne’ piedi; non farete cordoglio, e non piangerete; ma vi struggerete per le vostre iniquità, e gemerete l’un con l’altro.

24 Ed Ezechiele vi sarà per segno; voi farete del tutto come egli ha fatto; quando ciò sarà avvenuto, voi conoscerete che io sono il Signore Iddio.

25 E quant’è a te, figliuol d’uomo, nel giorno che io torrò loro la lor forza, la gioia della lor gloria, il desio degli occhi loro, e l’intento delle anime loro, i lor figliuoli, e le lor figliuole;

26 in quel giorno, colui che sarà scampato non verrà egli a te, per fartene saper le novelle?

27 In quel giorno la bocca tua ti sarà aperta, per parlar con colui che sarà scampato, e tu parlerai, e non sarai più mutolo, e sarai loro per segno; ed essi conosceranno che io sono il Signore.

   


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 # 166

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166. "'Who have not defiled their garments.'" This symbolically means, who possess truths, and have not soiled their worship by evil practices and the falsities attendant on these.

Garments in the Word symbolize truths that clothe good, and in an opposite sense, falsities that clothe evil. For a person embodies either his goodness or his evilness. Truths or falsities are therefore his garments.

Angels and spirits all appear dressed in clothing that reflects the truths of their goodness or the falsities of their evilness - on which subject, see the book Heaven and Hell, published in London, nos. 177-182. It is apparent from this that not defiling their garments symbolizes their possessing truths and not soiling their worship by evil practices and the falsities attendant on these.

[2] It is apparent from the following passages that garments in the Word symbolize truths, and in an opposite sense, falsities:

Awake, awake! Put on your strength, O Zion; put on your beautiful garments, O Jerusalem... (Isaiah 52:1)

(Jerusalem), I clothed you in embroidered cloth, gave you sandals of badger skin, clothed you with fine linen..., and adorned you with ornaments... You were adorned with gold and silver, and your clothing was of fine linen, silk, and embroidered cloth..., (so that) you became exceedingly beautiful... But you took some of your garments and made for yourself multicolored high places, so as to play the harlot on them... You took your embroidered garments... and made for yourself male images with which you played the harlot. 1 (Ezekiel 16:10-18)

The Jewish Church is described here, as having been given truths, because they had the Word, but that they falsified them. To play the harlot means to falsify (no. 134).

[3] The king's daughter is all glorious within, (and) her clothing is woven with gold. She shall be brought to the King in embroidered garments. (Psalms 45:13-14)

The king's daughter is the church in relation to its affection for truth.

O daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in scarlet elegantly, and put ornamentation of gold on your apparel. (2 Samuel 1:24)

This is said of Saul because as a king he symbolized Divine truth (no. 20).

...I will visit judgment on the princes and the king's children, and on all clothed with foreign apparel. (Zephaniah 1:8)

(Your enemies) shall also strip you of your garments, and take away your adornments. (Ezekiel 23:26)

Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and was standing (thus) before the Angel, (who said) "Take away the filthy garments from him (and clothe him with other garments). (Zechariah 3:3-5)

...the king came in and saw the guests, and he saw a man... who did not have on a wedding garment. So he said to him, "Friend, how did you come in here without a wedding garment?" (Matthew 22:11-13)

A wedding garment is Divine truth from the Word.

[4] Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing... (Matthew 7:15)

No one puts a piece of cloth from a new garment on an old garment; otherwise the new one tears (the old), and the piece from the new one does not match the old. (Luke 5:36-37)

Because a garment symbolizes truth, therefore the Lord compares the truths of the previous church, which were external and representative of spiritual ones, to a piece of cloth belonging to an old garment, while comparing the truths of the new church, which were internal and spiritual, to a piece of cloth from a new garment.

...on the thrones... twenty-four elders sitting, clothed in white garments. (Revelation 4:4)

(Those who stood) before the throne... in the presence of the Lamb (were) clothed with white robes..., and they washed their robes and made their robes white in the blood of the Lamb. (Revelation 7:9, 13-14)

...white robes were given to each (of those who were under the altar). (Revelation 6:11)

...the armies (of Him who sat on the white horse) followed Him..., clothed in fine linen, white and clean. (Revelation 19:14)

[5] Because angels symbolize Divine truths, therefore angels seen in the Lord's sepulchre appeared in white and shining garments (Matthew 28:3, Luke 24:4).

Because the Lord is Divine good and Divine truth, and truths are meant by garments, therefore when He was transfigured "His face shone like the sun, and His garments became [as white] as the light" (Matthew 17:2), or "blazing white (Luke 9:29), or "shining white, like snow, such that no launderer on earth can whiten them" (Mark 9:3).

Of the Ancient of Days, which also is the Lord, it is said that "His garment was as white as snow" (Daniel 7:9).

Moreover we find the following, too, said of the Lord:

He has anointed... all your garments with myrrh, aloes and cassia. (Psalms 45:7-8)

...He washed his clothing in wine, and his vesture in the blood of grapes. (Genesis 49:11)

Who is this who comes from Edom, having sprinkled his garments from Bozrah? This One honorable in His apparel...? ...Why are You red in Your apparel? Your garments as though of one who treads in the winepress...? Their victory is sprinkled upon My garments, and I have polluted all My vesture. (Isaiah 63:1-3)

This also is said of the Lord. His garments there are the Word's truths.

...He who sat on (the white horse)...was clothed with a garment dipped in blood, and His name is called The Word of God. (Revelation 19:11, 13)

[6] From the symbolic meaning of garments it can be seen why the Lord's disciples put their garments upon the donkey and its colt when the Lord was ready to enter Jerusalem, and why the people spread their garments on the road (Matthew 21:7-9, Mark 11:7-8), thus what is symbolically meant by this verse in the Psalms,

They divided My garments..., and over My vesture they cast lots. (Psalms 22:18)

[7] The symbolism of garments makes it apparent moreover why the people rent their garments whenever someone spoke against the Divine truth of the Word (Isaiah 37:1 and elsewhere). Also why they washed their garments in order to purify themselves (Exodus 19:14, Leviticus 11:25, 40; 14:8-9).

Someone who knows what garments symbolize in general and in particular can know what the vestments of Aaron and his sons symbolized - the ephod, the robe, the lace tunic, the girdle, the breeches, and the turban.

Since light symbolizes Divine truth, and a garment likewise, therefore we find it said in the Psalms that Jehovah covers Himself "with light as a with garment" (Psalms 104:2).

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1. The last two clauses are reversed from the order in which they appear in the original Hebrew.

  
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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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Isaiah 37:1

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1 It happened, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth, and went into Yahweh's house.