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Genesi 37

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1 OR Giacobbe abitò nel paese dove suo padre era andato peregrinando, nel paese di Canaan.

2 E le generazioni di Giacobbe furono quelle. Giuseppe, essendo giovane, d’età di diciassette anni, pasturava le gregge, coi suoi fratelli, co’ figliuoli di Bilha, e coi figliuoli di Zilpa, mogli di suo padre. Ed egli rapportava al padre loro la mala fama che andava attorno di loro.

3 Or Israele amava Giuseppe più che tutti gli altri suoi figliuoli; perciocchè gli era nato nella sua vecchiezza, e gli fece una giubba vergata.

4 E i suoi fratelli, veggendo che il padre loro l’amava più che tutti i suoi fratelli, l’odiavano, e non potevano parlar con lui in pace.

5 E Giuseppe sognò un sogno, ed egli lo raccontò a’ suoi fratelli; ed essi l’odiarono vie maggiormente.

6 Egli adunque disse loro: Deh! udite questo sogno che io ho sognato.

7 Ecco, noi legavamo i covoni in mezzo di un campo; ed ecco, il mio covone si levò su, ed anche si tenne ritto; ed ecco, i vostri covoni furon d’intorno al mio covone, e gli s’inchinarono.

8 E i suoi fratelli gli dissero: Regneresti tu pur sopra noi? signoreggeresti tu pur sopra noi? Essi adunque l’odiarono vie maggiormente per i suoi sogni, e per le sue parole.

9 Ed egli sognò ancora un altro sogno, e lo raccontò a’ suoi fratelli, dicendo: Ecco, io ho sognato ancora un sogno: ed ecco, il sole, e la luna, ed undici stelle, mi s’inchinavano.

10 Ed egli lo raccontò a suo padre, e a’ suoi fratelli. E suo padre lo sgridò, e gli disse: Quale è questo sogno che tu hai sognato? avremo noi, io, e tua madre, e i tuoi fratelli, pure a venire ad inchinarci a te a terra?

11 E i suoi fratelli gli portavano invidia; ma suo padre riserbava appo sè queste parole.

12 Or i suoi fratelli andarono a pasturar le gregge del padre loro in Sichem.

13 Ed Israele disse a Giuseppe: I tuoi fratelli non pasturano essi in Sichem? Vieni, ed io ti manderò a loro. Ed egli disse: Eccomi.

14 Ed esso gli disse: Or va’, e vedi se i tuoi fratelli, e le gregge, stanno bene, e rapportamelo. Così lo mandò dalla valle di Hebron; ed egli venne in Sichem.

15 Ed un uomo lo trovò ch’egli andava errando per li campi; e quell’uomo lo domandò, e gli disse: Che cerchi?

16 Ed egli disse: Io cerco i miei fratelli; deh! insegnami dove essi pasturano.

17 E quell’uomo gli disse: Essi son partiti di qui; perciocchè io li udii che dicevano: Andamocene in Dotain. Giuseppe adunque andò dietro a’ suoi fratelli, e li trovò in Dotain.

18 Ed essi lo videro da lungi; ed avanti che si appressasse a loro, macchinarono contro a lui, per ucciderlo.

19 E dissero l’uno all’altro: Ecco cotesto sognatore viene.

20 Ora dunque venite, ed uccidiamolo; e poi gittiamolo in una di queste fosse; e noi diremo che una mala bestia l’ha divorato; e vedremo che diverranno i suoi sogni.

21 Ma Ruben, udendo questo, lo riscosse dalle lor mani, e disse: Non percotiamolo a morte.

22 Ruben ancora disse loro: Non ispandete il sangue; gittatelo in quella fossa ch’è nel deserto, ma non gli mettete la mano addosso; per riscuoterlo dalle lor mani e per rimenarlo a suo padre.

23 E, quando Giuseppe fu venuto a’ suoi fratelli, essi lo spogliarono della sua giubba, di quella giubba vergata ch’egli avea indosso.

24 Poi lo presero, e lo gittarono in quella fossa: or la fossa era vota, e non vi era acqua alcuna dentro.

25 Poi si assettarono per prender cibo, ed alzarono gli occhi, e videro una carovana d’Ismaeliti che veniva di Galaad, i cui cammelli erano carichi di cose preziose, di balsamo e di mirra; ed essi andavano per portar quelle cose in Egitto.

26 E Giuda disse a’ suoi fratelli: Che guadagno faremo, quando avremo ucciso il nostro fratello, ed avremo occultato il suo sangue?

27 Venite, vendiamolo a cotesti Ismaeliti, e non mettiamogli la mano addosso; perciocchè egli è nostro fratello, nostra carne. E i suoi fratelli gli acconsentirono.

28 E come que’ mercatanti Madianiti passavano, essi trassero e fecero salir Giuseppe fuor di quella fossa, e per venti sicli d’argento lo vendettero a quegl’Ismaeliti; ed essi lo menarono in Egitto.

29 Or Ruben tornò alla fossa, ed ecco, Giuseppe non v’era più; ed egli stracciò i suoi vestimenti.

30 E tornò a’ suoi fratelli, e disse: Il fanciullo non si trova; ed io, dove andrò io?

31 Ed essi presero la giubba di Giuseppe; e scannarono un becco, e tinsero quella col sangue.

32 E mandarono a portar quella giubba vergata al padre loro, ed a dirgli: Noi abbiam trovata questa giubba: riconosci ora se è la giubba del tuo figliuolo, o no.

33 Ed egli la riconobbe, e disse: Questa è la giubba del mio figliuolo; una mala bestia l’ha divorato; Giuseppe per certo è stato lacerato.

34 E Giacobbe stracciò i suoi vestimenti, e si mise un sacco sopra i lombi, e fece cordoglio del suo figliuolo per molti giorni.

35 E tutti i suoi figliuoli, e tutte le sue figliuole, si levarono per consolarlo; ma egli rifiutò di esser consolato, e disse: Certo io scenderò con cordoglio al mio figliuolo nel sepolcro. E suo padre lo pianse.

36 E que’ Madianiti, menato Giuseppe in Egitto, lo vendettero a Potifarre, Eunuco di Faraone, Capitan delle guardie.

   


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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4674. 'And Joseph brought a bad report of them to their father' means that this showed up the essential nature of those people. This is clear from the representation of 'Joseph' as the Divine Spiritual or Divine Truth from the Lord, dealt with in 4286, 4675; 1 from the meaning of 'father' as good, dealt with in 3703, 3704, in this case the good of the Ancient Church, which is represented by 'Jacob', as will be seen at the end of this chapter; and from the meaning of 'a bad report' as faults and blemishes in those meant by 'Joseph's brothers' who, it was stated above in 4671, are members of the Church who turn aside from goodness and truth. From all this one may see what these words mean in the proximate internal sense, namely that the faults and blemishes meant by 'Joseph's brothers' were brought into focus, that is, were shown up by Divine Truth when this was directed by the good of the Ancient Church to look at them. Or what amounts to the same, the essential nature of those people was thereby shown up by it.

[2] As regards the falsities and evils of the Church - that is, of people in the Church - they are not seen by those people, because from falsities one cannot see falsities, nor from evils see evils. For false assumptions altogether darken truths, and a life of evil snuffs them out. Both of these - false assumptions and a life of evil - make falsities look like truths and truths like falsities, and good look like evil and evil like good, as experience abundantly makes plain. But the Church, or its members, are seen completely differently in heaven, for in heaven Divine Truth from the Lord is present, and Divine Truth constitutes the light there. Within that light the essential nature of those people is revealed, for the soul or spirit of every one is present in some community, whether it is one of angels or of devils. His thought exists there, but his speech and actions exist among men in their associating with one another.

[3] Further evidence that the essential nature of members of the Church is shown up by Divine Truth, that is, within Divine Light, is provided by the following: Before casting themselves into hell evil spirits recently arrived from the world desire more strongly than anyone else to be accepted into heaven. They believe that it is merely a matter of being accepted and that anyone, irrespective of what he is really like, may by grace be admitted into heaven. They are sometimes told that the Lord refuses heaven to none and that they can be admitted if they feel able to live there. Some are even taken up to the first communities situated in the outskirts of heaven. But when these get there they start to be seized with pain and to be almost suffocated, because of the strain placed on the life of their thought and will - the life of their thought consisting of false assumptions and the life of their will of the evil life they led in the world. And when they look at themselves in the light there they see themselves as devils, some being corpse-like, some monster-like. For this reason they cast themselves down headlong from that community, passing from the light there into a hellish mist, where they start to breathe again as they had done previously and where they are deluded into thinking they look like spirits who are not evil ones. This is the way they get to know what they are like essentially. From this it is now plain how one is to understand the explanation that this - Divine Truth - showed up the essential nature of those people.

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1. This reference appears to be incorrect. Probably 4592 or 4669 is intended.

  
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489. 'Sons and daughters' means the truths and goods which they perceived, 'sons to be exact meaning the truths and 'daughters' the goods. This becomes clear from very many places in the Prophets. For in the Word, as happened in earliest times, conceptions and births of the Church are called 'sons and daughters', as in Isaiah,

Nations will walk to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising. Lift up your eyes round about and see; they all gather and they come towards you. Your sons will come from far, and your daughters will be nursed at your side. Then you will see and abound, and your heart will be astounded and enlarged. Isaiah 60:3-5.

Here 'sons' stands for truths and 'daughters' for goods.

In David,

Rescue me and snatch me from the hand of sons of the foreigner, whose mouths speak lies. Our sons are like plants made large in their youth, our daughters like corner-pillars cut in the form of the temple. Psalms 144:11-12.

'Sons of the foreigner' stands for spurious truths, which are falsities, 'our sons' for matters of doctrine concerning truth, and 'daughters' for matters of doctrine concerning good.

In Isaiah,

I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Do not withhold. Bring My sons from afar and My daughters from the end of the earth. Bring forth the blind people, and they will have eyes, and the deaf, who will have ears. Isaiah 43:6, 8.

Here 'sons' stands for truths, 'daughters' for goods, 'the blind' for people who will see truths, and 'the deaf' for those who comply with them.

In Jeremiah,

From our youth shame is devouring the work of our fathers - their flocks, their herds, their sons, and their daughters. Jeremiah 3:24.

Here 'sons and daughters' stands for truths and goods.

[2] 'Male children' and 'sons' stand for truths in the following in Isaiah,

Jacob will no more be ashamed, and no more will his face grow pale. For when he sees his male children, the work of My hands, in his midst they will sanctify My name, and they will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob and stand in awe of the God of Israel. Those who err in spirit will know understanding Isaiah 29:12-24.

'The Holy One of Jacob, the God of Israel' stands for the Lord, 'male children' for regenerate people who have an understanding of good and truth, as is also explicitly stated.

In the same prophet,

Sing, O barren one, who did not bear, for the sons of her that is desolate are more than the sons of her that is married. Isaiah 54:1

'The sons of her that is desolate' stands for truths of the Primitive Church, or Church among gentiles, while 'the sons of her that is married' stands for truths of the Jewish Church.

In Jeremiah,

My tent has been laid waste, and all My cords torn away; My sons have gone away from Me, and they are not. Jeremiah 10:20.

'Sons' stands for truths.

In the same prophet,

Their sons will be as they were of old, and their congregation will be established before Me. Jeremiah 30:10

Here 'sons' stands for the truths of the Ancient Church.

In Zechariah,

I will rouse your sons, O Zion, together with your sons, O Jehovah, and I will set you as the sword of one who is powerful. Zechariah 9:13.

Here 'sons' stands for truths of faith inherent in love.

  
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