Ezechiele 45:11
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.
Seven
Seven, as in Revelation 15:1, signifies everything in an universal sense. The number 'seven' was considered holy, as is well known, because of the six days of creation, and the seventh, which is the celestial self, where peace, rest, and the Sabbath is. The number seven occurs so frequently in the rites of the Jewish church and is held holy everywhere.
So times were divided into seven, longer and shorter intervals, and were called weeks, like the great intervals of times till the coming of the Messiah, in Daniel 9:24-25. The time of seven years is called 'a week' by Laban and Jacob, as in Genesis 29:27-28. So wherever the number seven occurs, it is considered holy and sacred, as in Psalm 119:164, and in Isaiah 30:26.
As the periods of a person's regeneration are distinguished into six, prior to the seventh, or the celestial self, so the times of vastation are also distinguished, until nothing celestial is left. This was represented by the many captivities of the Jews, and by the last Babylonian captivity, which lasted seven decades, or seventy years. This was also represented by Nebuchadnezzar, in Daniel 4:16, 22, 29. It also refers to the vastation of the end times, in Revelation 15:1, 7-8. They should 'tread the holy city under foot, forty and two months, or six times seven,' as in Revelation 11:2 and Revelation 5:1. So the severity and increments of punishment were expressed by the number seven, as in Leviticus 26:18, 21, 24, 28 and Psalm 79:12.
(Odkazy: Apocalypse Explained 5, 7-8, 15; Arcana Coelestia 395; Daniel 9, 9:24, 9:25; Psalms 119)
Psalms 118
1
Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever.
2
Let Israel now say that his loving kindness endures forever.
3
Let the house of Aaron now say that his loving kindness endures forever.
4
Now let those who fear Yahweh say that his loving kindness endures forever.
5
Out of my distress, I called on Yah. Yah answered me with freedom.
6
Yahweh is on my side. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?
7
Yahweh is on my side among those who help me. Therefore I will look in triumph at those who hate me.
8
It is better to take refuge in Yahweh, than to put confidence in man.
9
It is better to take refuge in Yahweh, than to put confidence in princes.
10
All the nations surrounded me, but in the name of Yahweh, I cut them off.
11
They surrounded me, yes, they surrounded me. In the name of Yahweh I indeed cut them off.
12
They surrounded me like bees. They are quenched like the burning thorns. In the name of Yahweh I cut them off.
13
You pushed me back hard, to make me fall, but Yahweh helped me.
14
Yah is my strength and song. He has become my salvation.
15
The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tents of the righteous. "The right hand of Yahweh does valiantly.
16
The right hand of Yahweh is exalted! The right hand of Yahweh does valiantly!"
17
I will not die, but live, and declare Yah's works.
18
Yah has punished me severely, but he has not given me over to death.
19
Open to me the gates of righteousness. I will enter into them. I will give thanks to Yah.
20
This is the gate of Yahweh; the righteous will enter into it.
21
I will give thanks to you, for you have answered me, and have become my salvation.
22
The stone which the builders rejected has become the head of the corner.
23
This is Yahweh's doing. It is marvelous in our eyes.
24
This is the day that Yahweh has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it!
25
Save us now, we beg you, Yahweh! Yahweh, we beg you, send prosperity now.
26
Blessed is he who comes in the name of Yahweh! We have Blessed you out of the house of Yahweh.
27
Yahweh is God, and he has given us light. Bind the sacrifice with cords, even to the horns of the altar.
28
You are my God, and I will give thanks to you. You are my God, I will exalt you.
29
Oh give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever. ALEPH
