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Genesi 15

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1 DOPO queste cose, la parola del Signore fu indirizzata ad Abramo in visione, dicendo: Non temere, o Abramo, io ti sono scudo; il tuo premio è molto grande.

2 Ed Abramo disse: O Signore Iddio, che mi daresti? conciossiachè io viva senza figliuoli, e colui che ha il governo della mia casa è questo Eliezer Damasceno.

3 Abramo disse ancora: Ecco, tu non mi hai data progenie; ed ecco, un servo nato in casa mia sarà mio erede.

4 Ed in quello stante, la parola del Signore gli fu indirizzata, dicendo: Costui non sarà tuo erede; anzi colui che uscirà delle tue viscere sarà tuo erede.

5 Poi lo menò fuori, e gli disse: Riguarda ora verso il cielo, ed annovera le stelle, se pur tu le puoi annoverare. Poi gli disse: Così sarà la tua progenie.

6 Ed esso credette al Signore; e il Signore gl’imputò ciò a giustizia.

7 E gli disse: Io sono il Signore che ti ho fatto uscire di Ur de’ Caldei, per darti questo paese, acciocchè tu lo possegga.

8 Ed Abramo rispose: Signore Iddio, a che conoscerò io che io lo possederò?

9 E il Signore gli disse: Pigliami una giovenca di tre anni, ed una capra di tre anni, ed un montone di tre anni, ed una tortora ed un pippione.

10 Ed egli prese tutte quelle cose, e le partì per lo mezzo, e pose ciascuna metà dirimpetto all’altra; ma non partì gli uccelli.

11 Or certi uccelli discesero sopra quei corpi morti, ed Abramo, sbuffando, li cacciò.

12 Ed in sul tramontar del sole, un profondo sonno cadde sopra Abramo; ed ecco, uno spavento ed una grande oscurità cadde sopra lui.

13 E il Signore disse ad Abramo: Sappi pure che la tua progenie dimorerà come straniera in un paese che non sarà suo, e servirà alla gente di quel paese, la quale l’affliggerà; e ciò sarà per lo spazio di quattrocent’anni.

14 Ma altresì io farò giudicio della gente alla quale avrà servito; poi essi se ne usciranno con gran ricchezze.

15 E tu te ne andrai a’ tuoi padri in pace, e sarai seppellito in buona vecchiezza.

16 E nella quarta generazione, essi ritorneranno qua; perciocchè fino ad ora l’iniquità degli Amorrei non è compiuta.

17 Ora, come il sole si fu coricato, venne una caligine; ed ecco, un forno fumante, ed un torchio acceso, il qual passò per mezzo quelle parti di quegli animali.

18 In quel giorno il Signore fece patto con Abramo, dicendo: Io ho dato alla tua progenie questo paese, dal fiume di Egitto fino al fiume grande, ch’è il fiume Eufrate;

19 il paese de’ Chenei, e de’ Chenizzei, e de’ Cadmonei;

20 e degl’Hittei, e de’ Ferezei, e de’ Rafei;

21 e degli Amorrei, e de’ Cananei, e de’ Ghirgasei, e de’ Gebusei.

   


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 Explained # 366

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366. That they should slay one another, signifies the falsification or extinction of truths. This is evident from the signification of "slaying," as meaning the extinction of truths; for "to slay" in the Word signifies to slay spiritually, that is, to slay the spiritual part of a man or his soul, which is to extinguish truths. It also means to falsify, because when truths are falsified they are also extinguished; for falsification produces a different understanding of truths, and truth is true to everyone according to his understanding of it; for the love and principle that rule in man draw and apply all things to themselves, even truths themselves; consequently when the love is evil, or the principle is false, then truths are infected with the evil of the love or the falsity of the principle, and thus are extinguished. This, therefore, is what is here signified by "they should slay one another." That this takes place when there is no good with man, and especially when there is no good in the doctrine of his church, is evident from the preceding words, where it is said, "When he had opened the second seal there went forth a red horse; and to him that sat upon him it was given to take peace from the earth;" which signifies a second state of the church when the understanding of the Word is destroyed in respect to good, which is the source of dissensions in the church (of which see above, n. 361, 364, 365).

[2] That the understanding of the Word, or what is the same, the understanding of the truth, is destroyed when there is no good with man, that is, when there is no love to the Lord and charity towards the neighbor, may be seen above n. 365; for good with man, or what is the same, love with him, is the fire of his life, and truth with him, or the faith of truth, is the light therefrom; consequently such as the good is, or such as the love is in man, such is truth, or such the faith of truth in him. From this it can be seen that when evil or an evil love is with man there can be no truth or faith of truth with him; for the light that goes forth from such fire is the light that those have who are in hell, which is a fatuous light like the light from burning coals, which light, when light from heaven flows in, is turned into mere thick darkness. Such also is the light that with the evil, when they reason against the things of the church, is called natural light [lumen].

[3] That they would falsify and thereby extinguish truths is meant also by the Lord's words in Matthew:

Jesus said to the disciples, The brother shall deliver up the brother, the father the son; children shall rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death (Matthew 10:21).

And in Luke:

Ye shall be delivered up by parents, and brethren, and kinsfolk, and friends; and some of you shall they cause to be put to death (Luke 21:16).

"Parents," "brethren," "children," ["kinsfolk, "] and "friends," do not mean here parents, brethren, children, kinsfolk, friends, nor do "disciples" mean disciples, but the goods and truths of the church, also evils and falsities; it is also meant that evils would extinguish goods and falsities truths. (That such is the signification of these words, see Arcana Coelestia 10490.)

  
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John 16:33

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33 I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world."