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Genesi 6

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1 OR avvenne che, quando gli uomini cominciarono a moltiplicar sopra la terra, e che furono loro nate delle figliuole,

2 i figliuoli di Dio, veggendo che le figliuole degli uomini erano belle, si presero per mogli quelle che si scelsero d’infra tutte.

3 E il Signore disse: Lo Spirito mio non contenderà in perpetuo con gli uomini; perciocchè anche non sono altro che carne; e il termine loro sarà centovent’anni.

4 In quel tempo i giganti erano in su la terra, e furono anche dappoi, quando i figliuoli di Dio entrarono dalle figliuole degli uomini, ed esse partorirono loro de’ figliuoli. Costoro son quegli uomini possenti, i quali già anticamente erano uomini famosi.

5 E il Signore, veggendo che la malvagità degli uomini era grande in terra; e che tutte le immaginazioni de’ pensieri del cuor loro non erano altro che male in ogni tempo,

6 ei si pentì d’aver fatto l’uomo in su la terra, e se ne addolorò nel cuor suo.

7 E il Signore disse: Io sterminerò d’in su la terra gli uomini che io ho creati; io sterminerò ogni cosa, dagli uomini fino agli animali, ai rettili ed agli uccelli del cielo; perciocchè io mi pento di averli fatti.

8 Ma Noè trovò grazia appo il Signore.

9 Queste son le generazioni di Noè. Noè fu uomo giusto, intiero nelle sue età, e camminò con Dio.

10 E generò tre figliuoli: Sem, Cam e Iafet.

11 Ora, la terra si era corrotta nel cospetto di Dio, ed era piena di violenza.

12 E Iddio riguardò la terra, ed ecco era corrotta; poichè ogni carne aveva corrotta la sua via in su la terra.

13 E Iddio disse a Noè: Appo me la fine di ogni carne è giunta; perciocchè la terra è ripiena di violenza per cagion di costoro; ed ecco io li farò perire, insieme con la terra.

14 Fatti un’Arca di legno di Gofer; falla a stanze, ed impeciala, di fuori e di dentro, con pece.

15 E questa è la forma della qual tu la farai: la lunghezza di essa sia di trecento cubiti, e la larghezza di cinquanta cubiti, e l’altezza di trenta cubiti.

16 E da’ lume all’Arca; e fa’ il comignolo di essa disopra di un cubito; e metti la porta dell’Arca al lato di essa; falla a tre palchi, basso, secondo e terzo.

17 Ed ecco io farò venir sopra la terra il diluvio delle acque, per far perir di sotto al cielo ogni carne in cui è alito di vita; tutto ciò ch’è in terra morrà.

18 Ma io fermerò il mio patto teco; e tu entrerai nell’Arca, tu, ed i tuoi figliuoli, e la tua moglie, e le mogli de’ tuoi figliuoli teco.

19 E di ogni creatura vivente, di ogni carne, fanne entrar dentro l’Arca due per ciascuna, che saranno maschio e femmina, per conservarli in vita teco.

20 Degli uccelli, secondo le loro specie; delle bestie, secondo le loro specie; e di tutti i rettili, secondo le loro specie; due per ciascuna verranno a te, per esser conservati in vita.

21 E tu, prenditi di ogni cibo che si mangia, ed accoglilo appresso a te; acciocchè sia a te ed a quegli animali per cibo.

22 E Noè fece così; egli fece secondo tutto ciò che Iddio gli avea comandato.

   


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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Exploring the Meaning of Genesis 6

Napsal(a) New Christian Bible Study Staff

Here are some excerpts from Swedenborg's "Arcana Coelestia" that help explain the inner meaning of this chapter:

AC 554. The subject here treated of is the state of the people before the flood.

AC 555. That with man, where the church was, cupidities, which are the "daughters"-began to reign. Also that they conjoined the doctrinal things of faith with their cupidities, and thus confirmed themselves in evils and falses, which is signified by "the sons of God taking to themselves wives of the daughters of man" (verses 1, 2).

AC 556. And whereas there were thus no remains of good and truth left, it is foretold that man should be differently formed, in order that he might have remains, which are "a hundred and twenty years" (verse 3).

AC 557. Those who immersed the doctrinal things of faith in their cupidities, and in consequence of this as well as of the love of self conceived dreadful persuasions of their own greatness in comparison with others, are signified by the "Nephilim" (verse 4).

AC 558. In consequence of this there no longer remained any will or perception of good and truth (verse 5).

AC 559. The mercy of the Lord is described by "repenting and grieving at heart" (verse 6). That they became such that their cupidities and persuasions must needs prove fatal to them (verse 7). Therefore in order that the human race might be saved, a new church should arise, which is "Noah" (verse 8).

AC 599. The subject here treated of is the state of the church called "Noah," before its regeneration.

AC 600. The man of that church is described, that he was such that he could be regenerated (verse 9); but that there arose thence three kinds of doctrine, which are "Shem, Ham, and Japheth" (verse 10).

AC 601. That the man who was left from the Most Ancient Church could not be regenerated, on account of his direful persuasions and foul cupidities (verses 11, 12); whereby he would utterly destroy himself (verse 13).

AC 602. But the man of the church called "Noah," who is described by the "ark," was not so (verse 14); and the remains with him are described by the measures (verse 15); the things of his understanding, by the "window," "door," and "mansions" (verse 16).

AC 603. That he would be preserved when the rest would perish by an inundation of evil and falsity (verse 17).

AC 604. And that the truths and goods which were with him would be saved (verse 18); and thus whatever was of the understanding and whatever was of the will, by regeneration (verses 19, 20); for receiving which he was to be prepared (verse 21); and that it was so done (verse 22).

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Arcana Coelestia # 554

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554. Genesis 6:1-8

1. And so it was that man began to multiply himself over the face 1 of the ground, and daughters were born to them.

2. And the sons of God saw the daughters of man that they were fair, and took wives for themselves from all whom they chose.

3. And Jehovah said, My spirit will not reprove man for ever, in that he is flesh; and his days will be a hundred and twenty years.

4. The Nephilim were in the land in those days, very much so after the sons of God went in to the daughters of man, who bore children to them; they were mighty men (vir) who from of old were men (vir) of the name.

5. And Jehovah saw that the evil of man had been increased on the earth; and all the imagination of the thoughts of his heart was altogether evil all the day long.

6. And Jehovah repented that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.

7. And Jehovah said, I will wipe out man whom I have created from upon the face' of the ground, from man even to beast, even to creeping thing, and even to birds of the air; 2 for I repent of having made them.

8. And Noah found grace in Jehovah's eyes.

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The subject is the state of the people before the Flood.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. literally, the faces

2. literally, bird of the heavens (or the skies)

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.