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1 QUESTA è la descrizione delle generazioni di Adamo. Nel giorno che Iddio creò l’uomo, egli lo fece alla sua somiglianza.

2 Egli li creò maschio e femmina, e li benedisse, e pose loro nome UOMO, nel giorno che furono creati.

3 Ora Adamo, essendo vivuto centotrent’anni, generò un figliuolo alla sua somiglianza, secondo la sua immagine; e gli pose nome Set.

4 E il tempo che visse Adamo, dopo ch’ebbe generato Set, fu ottocent’anni; e generò figliuoli e figliuole.

5 Così tutto il tempo che visse Adamo fu novecentrent’anni; poi morì.

6 E Set, essendo vivuto centocinque anni, generò Enos.

7 E Set, dopo che ebbe generato Enos, visse ottocensette anni, e generò figliuoli e figliuole.

8 Così tutto il tempo che visse Set fu novecendodici anni; poi morì.

9 Ed Enos, essendo vivuto novant’anni, generò Chenan.

10 Ed Enos, dopo ch’ebbe generato Chenan, visse ottocenquindici anni, e generò figliuoli e figliuole.

11 Così tutto il tempo che visse Enos fu novecencinque anni; poi morì.

12 E Chenan, essendo vivuto settant’anni, generò Mahalaleel.

13 E Chenan, dopo ch’ebbe generato Mahalaleel, visse ottocento quaranta anni, e generò figliuoli e figliuole.

14 Così tutto il tempo che Chenan visse fu novecendieci anni; poi morì.

15 E Mahalaleel, essendo vivuto sessantacinque anni, generò Iared.

16 E Mahalaleel, dopo ch’ebbe generato Iared, visse ottocento trenta anni, e generò figliuoli e figliuole.

17 Così tutto il tempo che Mahalaleel visse fu ottocento novanta cinque anni; poi morì.

18 E Iared, essendo vivuto censessantadue anni, generò Enoc.

19 E Iared, dopo ch’ebbe generato Enoc, visse ottocent’anni, e generò figliuoli e figliuole.

20 Così tutto il tempo che Iared visse fu novecento sessantadue anni; poi morì.

21 Ed Enoc essendo vivuto sessantacinque anni, generò Metusela.

22 Ed Enoc, dopo ch’ebbe generato Metusela, camminò con Dio per lo spazio di trecent’anni e generò figliuoli e figliuole.

23 Così, tutto il tempo che Enoc visse fu trecento sessanta cinque anni.

24 E dopo che Enoc fu camminato con Dio, non si vide più; perciocchè Iddio lo prese.

25 E Metusela, essendo vivuto cento ottantasette anni, generò Lamec.

26 E Metusela, dopo ch’ebbe generato Lamec, visse settecento ottantadue anni, e generò figliuoli e figliuole.

27 Così, tutto il tempo che Metusela visse fu novecento sessantanove anni; poi morì.

28 E Lamec, essendo vivuto cento ottantadue anni, generò un figliuolo.

29 E gli pose nome Noè, dicendo: Costui ci consolerà della nostra opera, e della fatica delle nostre mani, la quale portiamo per cagion della terra che il Signore ha maladetta.

30 E Lamec, dopo ch’ebbe generato Noè, visse cinquecento novantacinque anni, e generò figliuoli e figliuole.

31 Così tutto il tempo che Lamec visse fu settecento settantasette anni; poi morì.

32 E Noè, essendo di età di cinquecent’anni, generò Sem, Cam e Iafet.

   


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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576. That the number ten means remnants, just as tenths do, becomes clear from the following places: In Isaiah,

Many houses will be a desolation, large and beautiful ones, without inhabitant, for ten acres of vineyard will yield but one bath, and a homer of seed will yield an ephah. Isaiah 5:9-10.

This refers to the vastation of spiritual and celestial things. 'Ten acres of vineyard will yield but one bath' stands for remnants of spiritual things being so few, while 'a homer of seed will yield an ephah' stands for remnants of celestial things being so few. In the same prophet,

And there will be many forsaken places in the midst of the land; and yet there will be a tenth part in it, and this will return; it will be however an uprooting. Isaiah 6:12-13.

'The midst of the land' stands for the internal man, 'a tenth part' for such a small quantity of remnants. In Ezekiel,

You shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath. The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, the bath containing a tenth of a homer; and the ephah a tenth of a homer, the measure for it shall be after the homer. And the fixed portion of oil, of the bath of oil, shall be a tenth of a bath from a cor, which is ten baths to the homer; for ten baths are a homer. Ezekiel 45:10-11, 14.

The quantities mentioned here relate to holy things, which are Jehovah's. They mean different kinds of holy things. 'Ten' here means remnants of celestial things and so of spiritual things. For what are the specific numerical quantities mentioned in this and in previous chapters of this prophet where the heavenly Jerusalem and the new Temple are the subject, and in other prophets, and also in the various rites of the Jewish Church, if they do not contain sacred arcana?

[2] In Amos,

She has fallen, no more to rise, the virgin of Israel. Thus said the Lord Jehovah, The city that goes forth a thousand will have remnants of a hundred, and that which goes forth a hundred will have remnants of ten to the house of Israel. Amos 5:2-3.

The word 'remnants' is used here, of which only a fraction will remain, for this is only a tenth part, or the remnants of remnants. In the same prophet,

I hate the pride of Jacob and his palaces, and I will shut up the city and all that is in it. And it will be that if ten men will have remained in one house, they will die. Amos 6:8-9.

'Ten' stands for remnants that are not likely to remain. In Moses,

The Ammonite and the Moabite shall not come into the assembly of Jehovah; even the tenth generation belonging to them shall not come into the assembly of Jehovah forever. Deuteronomy 23:3.

'The Ammonite and the Moabite' stands for the profanation of the celestial and the spiritual things of faith, the remnants of which have been dealt with already.

[3] From this it is clear that 'tenths' represents remnants, of which Malachi speaks as follows,

Bring all the tithes 1 to the treasure-house, that there may be plunder in My house, and let them put Me to the test in this matter whether I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out a blessing for you. Malachi 3:10.

'That there may be plunder in My house stands for remnants in the internal man, which are likened to 'plunder' because they are implanted, so to speak, by stealth among so many evils and falsities; and by way of such remnants comes every blessing. The fact that the whole of a person's charity comes to him by way of the remnants that are in the internal man was also represented in the Jewish Church by the requirement that once they had paid their tithes, 1 they were then to give to the Levite, the stranger, the orphan, and the widow, Deuteronomy 26:12 and following verses.

[4] Since remnants are the Lord' s alone, tenths are therefore called 'Holiness to Jehovah', and are spoken of in Moses as follows,

All the tithes 1 of the land - of the seed of the land, of the fruit of the tree - are Jehovah's; they are Holiness to Jehovah. All tithes 1 of the herd and of the flock, every tenth one that passes under the (herdsman's) staff shall be Holiness to Jehovah. Leviticus 27:30, 32.

Since the Decalogue consisted of Ten Commandments, or Ten Words, and Jehovah wrote them on tablets, Deuteronomy 10:4, remnants are meant; and the fact that they were written by the hand of Jehovah means that such remnants are the Lord's alone. Their presence in the internal man was represented by the tablets.

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