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1 Figliuol d’uomo, prenditi eziandio un coltello tagliente, prenditi un rasoio di barbiere, e fattelo passare sopra il capo, e sopra la barba; poi pigliati delle bilance da pesare, e spartisci i peli.

2 Ardine la terza parte col fuoco, in mezzo della città, mentre si compieranno i giorni dell’assedio; poi prendine un’altra terza parte, e percuotila con la spada d’intorno alla città; e spargi l’altra terza parte al vento; ed io sguainerò la spada dietro a loro.

3 Ma pure prendine un piccol numero, e legalo a’ lembi della tua vesta.

4 E di questo prendine ancora una parte, e gittala in mezzo del fuoco, e ardila col fuoco. Di quella uscirà un fuoco contro a tutta la casa d’Israele.

5 Così ha detto il Signore Iddio: Questa è Gerusalemme; io l’avea posta in mezzo delle nazioni, e vi erano diversi paesi d’intorno a lei.

6 Ma ella ha trasgredite le mie leggi, per darsi all’empietà, più che le nazioni; ed ha trasgrediti i miei statuti, più che i paesi ch’erano d’intorno a lei; perciocchè han rigettate le mie leggi, e non son camminati ne’ miei statuti.

7 Perciò, così ha detto il Signore Iddio: Perciocchè voi avete sopravanzate le genti ch’erano d’intorno a voi, e non siete camminati ne’ miei statuti, e non avete messe ad effetto le mie leggi; anzi non pure avete fatto secondo le usanze delle genti ch’erano d’intorno a voi;

8 perciò, così ha detto il Signore Iddio: Eccomi altresì contro a te; ed io eseguirò i miei giudicii in mezzo di te, nel cospetto delle genti;

9 e farò in te ciò che mai non ho fatto, e non farò giammai più, per cagion di tutte le tue abbominazioni.

10 Perciò, i padri mangeranno i lor figliuoli in mezzo di te, e i figliuoli mangeranno i lor padri; ed io eseguirò i miei giudicii in te, e dispergerò tutto il tuo rimanente a tutti i venti.

11 Per tanto, come io vivo, dice il Signore Iddio, perchè tu hai contaminato il mio santuario con tutti i tuoi fatti esecrabili, e con tutte le tue abbominazioni, io altresì ti raderò, e il mio occhio non perdonerà, ed io ancora non risparmierò.

12 Una terza parte di te morrà di pestilenza, e sarà consumata di fame, nel mezzo di te; e un’altra terza parte caderà per la spada d’intorno a te; ed io dispergerò a tutti i venti l’altra terza parte, e sguainerò la spada dietro a loro.

13 E il mio cruccio si adempierà, ed io acqueterò l’ira mia sopra loro, e mi appagherò; ed essi conosceranno che io, il Signore, ho parlato nella mia gelosia, quando avrò adempiuta l’ira mia sopra loro.

14 Ed io ti metterò in deserto, e in vituperio, fra le genti che son d’intorno a te, alla vista d’ogni passante.

15 E il tuo vituperio ed obbrobrio, sarà in ammaestramento, e in istupore alle genti, che son d’intorno a te; quando io avrò eseguiti i miei giudicii sopra te, con ira, con cruccio, e con castigamenti d’indegnazione. Io, il Signore, ho parlato.

16 Quando avrò tratte sopra loro le male saette della fame, che saranno mortali, le quali io trarrò per distruggervi; ed avrò aggravata sopra voi la fame, e vi avrò rotto il sostegno del pane;

17 ed avrò mandata contro a voi la fame, e le bestie nocive, che ti dipopoleranno; e quando la pestilenza e il sangue saranno passati per mezzo di te; ed io avrò fatta venire sopra te la spada. Io, il Signore, ho parlato.

   

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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66. Verse 14. And His head and hairs white, signifies the Divine in firsts and in ultimates. This is evident from the signification of "head," when it refers to the Lord, of whom these things are said, as being the Divine in firsts (of which presently); and from the signification of "hairs," as being the Divine in ultimates (of which also presently); and from the signification of "white," as being what is pure. (That "white" [album] and "bright white" [candidum] mean what is pure, see Arcana Coelestia 3301, 3993, 4007, 5319.) "Head," in reference to the Lord, is the Divine in firsts, because the head is the highest part of man, and in it are his firsts, which are called the beginnings, from which are derived all things that have place in the body; for in the head are the understanding and the will, from which, as from their firsts or beginnings, flow the remaining things that relate to man's outer life, such as speech and all actions. But "hairs," in reference to the Lord, mean the Divine in ultimates, because hairs are ultimate things, for they grow out of the outmost parts of man, and first things terminate in them; when, therefore, "head" and "hairs" are mentioned firsts and ultimates are meant.

[2] Anyone who knows that in spiritual things also "head" signifies first things and "hairs" ultimates, and that first things and ultimates signify all things (as shown in n. 41), can know many arcana of the internal sense where "head" and "hairs" are mentioned; as that:

A Nazarite should not shave the hair of his head, for this, as it is said, was the Nazariteship of God upon his head, and when the days were accomplished, he was to shave it off and consecrate it (Numbers 6:1-21);

also that:

The strength of Samson was in his locks, and when they were shaven off he became weak, and when they grew again he came into his strength (Judges 16:13-31 tothe end);

also that:

Forty-two children were torn in pieces by bears because they mocked Elisha, calling him bald-head (2 Kings 2:23-24);

as also that:

Elijah was clothed with a garment of hair (2 Kings 1:8);

And John the Baptist with camel's hair (Mark 1:6);

furthermore, what "head," "hairs," "beard," and "baldness" signify wherever they are mentioned in the Word.

[3] That a Nazarite should not shave his hair, because this, as is said, was the Nazariteship of God upon his head; and that when the days were accomplished he should shave it off and consecrate it, was for the reason that the Nazarite represented the Lord in firsts and in ultimates, and His Divine in ultimates was His Human, which He made Divine even to the flesh and bones, which are ultimates. That He made it Divine even to the flesh and bones is evident from the fact that He left nothing in the sepulcher, and that:

He said to the disciples that He had flesh and bones, which a spirit hath not (Luke 24:39-40).

And when the Divine Itself is Divine even in ultimates, then it governs all things from firsts by means of ultimates (as can be seen from what was shown above, n. 41; especially from what was cited from the Arcana Coelestia, namely, that interior things flow in successively into exterior things, even into what is extreme or outmost, and there have existence and subsistence, n. 634, 6239, 6465, 9215, 9216; that they not only flow in successively, but also form what is simultaneous in the ultimate, in what order see n. 5897, 6451, 8603, 10099; that therefore all interior things are held together in connection from the first by means of the ultimate, n. 9828, and in the work on Heaven and Hell 297; that from this the ultimate is more holy than the interiors, n. 9824; and therefore in ultimates there is strength and power, n. 9836). These then are the reasons why the Nazariteship was instituted. The Nazarite was finally to consecrate his hair by putting it into the fire of the altar, because it represented the Divine holiness, and the "fire of the altar" signified that holiness (n. 934, 6314, 6832).

[4] From this it can be seen, moreover, why the strength of Samson was in his hair (Judges 16:13-31 to the end), for it is said that:

He was a Nazarite from his mother's womb (Judges 13:7; 16:17).

Moreover, for the same reason:

It was not lawful for the high priest and his sons, nor for the Levites, to shave the head and make themselves bald (Leviticus 10:6; 21:5, 10; Ezekiel 44:20).

Likewise:

With the Israelitish people to cut off the beard (which had a like signification) was disgraceful (2 Samuel 10:4, 5).

The forty-two children were torn in pieces by the bears because they mocked Elisha, calling him bald-head, for the reason that Elijah and Elisha represented the Lord in respect to the Word, which is Divine truth, the sanctity and strength of which are in ultimates from firsts, as was said just above. Because "baldness" thus signified the deprivation of these, this took place. "Bears," moreover, signify truth in ultimates. (That Elijah and Elisha represented the Lord in respect to the Word, see Arcana Coelestia 2762, 5247.) From this it is clear also why Elijah had a hairy garment and John one of camel's hair; for John the Baptist, like Elijah, represented the Lord in respect to the Word; for this reason also he was called Elijah (See Arcana Coelestia 7643, 9372).

[5] When these things are understood, it can be known what is signified in the Word by "head," "hairs," "beard," and "baldness," as in Isaiah:

In that time shall the Lord shave by the king of Assyria, the head, and the hairs of the feet, He shall also consume the beard (Isaiah 7:20).

In the same prophet:

On all heads baldness, every beard cut off (Isaiah 15:2).

In Jeremiah:

Truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth. Cut off thine hair and cast it away (Jeremiah 7:28-29).

In Ezekiel:

Take a razor and pass it over the head and beard (Ezekiel 5:1).

Shame shall be upon every face, and baldness upon all heads (Ezekiel 7:18).

Every head was made bald (Ezekiel 29:18).

In Amos:

I will bring up baldness upon every head (Amos 8:10).

In David:

God shall bruise the head of His enemies, the hairy scalp of him that goeth on in his guilt (Psalms 68:21).

In these passages and in others, by "cutting off the hair of the head," "shaving the beard," and inducing baldness, is signified to deprive of all truth and good; since he that is deprived of ultimates is also deprived of things prior, for prior things have existence and subsistence in ultimates, as was said above. Moreover, in the world of spirits there are seen some that are bald, and I have been told that they are such as have abused the Word, and have applied the sense of the letter, which is Divine truth in ultimates, to wicked purposes, and therefore have been deprived of all truth. These are most malignant. Many of them are of the Babylonish body. Angels, on the contrary, appear with becoming hair.

  
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