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Genesi 7

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1 Poi il Signore disse a Noè: Entra tu, e tutta la tua famiglia dentro l’Arca; perciocchè in questa età io ti ho veduto giusto davanti a me.

2 Di ciascuna specie di animali mondi, prendine sette paia, maschio e femmina; e degli animali immondi, un paio, un maschio e la sua femmina.

3 Degli uccelli del cielo, prendine parimente di ciascuna specie sette paia, maschio e femmina; per conservarne in vita la generazione sopra la terra.

4 Perciocchè fra qui e sette dì, io farò piovere in su la terra per lo spazio di quaranta giorni e di quaranta notti, e sterminerò d’in su la terra ogni cosa sussistente che io ho fatta.

5 E Noè fece secondo tutto ciò che il Signore gli avea comandato.

6 Or Noè era di età di seicento anni, quando il diluvio fu, e le acque vennero sopra la terra.

7 E Noè, insieme co’ suoi figliuoli, e con la sua moglie, e con le mogli de’ suoi figliuoli, entrò nell’Arca d’innanzi alle acque del diluvio.

8 Degli animali mondi, e degli animali immondi, e degli uccelli, e di tutto ciò che serpe in su la terra,

9 ne vennero delle paia, maschio e femmina, a Noè, dentro l’Arca; come Iddio avea comandato a Noè.

10 Ed avvenne, al termine de’ sette giorni, che le acque del diluvio vennero sopra la terra.

11 L’anno seicentesimo della vita di Noè, nel secondo mese, nel decimosettimo giorno del mese, in quel giorno tutte le fonti del grande abisso scoppiarono, e le cateratte del cielo furono aperte.

12 E la pioggia fu in su la terra, per lo spazio di quaranta giorni e di quaranta notti.

13 In quel giorno stesso Noè entrò nell’Arca, insieme con Sem, Cam e Iafet, suoi figliuoli, e con la sua moglie, e con le tre mogli de’ suoi figliuoli.

14 Essi vi entrarono, ed anche fiere de ogni specie, ed animali domestici di ogni specie, e rettili che serpono sopra la terra di ogni specie, ed uccelli di ogni specie, ed uccelletti di ogni sorta di qualunque ala.

15 In somma, di ogni carne, in cui è alito di vita, ne venne un paio a Noè dentro l’Arca.

16 E gli animali che vennero erano maschio e femmina, come Iddio avea comandato a Noè. Poi il Signore serrò l’Arca sopra esso.

17 E il diluvio venne sopra la terra, per lo spazio di quaranta giorni; e le acque crebbero, e sollevarono l’Arca, ed ella fu alzata d’in su la terra.

18 E le acque si rinforzarono, e crebbero grandemente sopra la terra; e l’Arca notava sopra le acque.

19 E le acque si rinforzarono grandissimamente sopra la terra; e tutti gli alti monti, che son sotto tutti i cieli, furono coperti.

20 Le acque avanzarono essi monti, dell’altezza di quindici cubiti. Così i monti furono coperti.

21 Ed ogni carne che si muove sopra la terra, degli uccelli, degli animali domestici, delle fiere e di tutti i rettili che serpono sopra la terra, morì, insieme con tutti gli uomini.

22 Tutto ciò che ha fiato d’alito di vita nelle sue nari, d’infra tutto ciò ch’era nell’asciutto, morì.

23 E fu sterminata ogni cosa sussistente, che era sopra la faccia della terra, dagli uomini fino alle bestie, e i rettili, e gli uccelli del cielo; furono, dico, sterminati d’in su la terra; e Noè solo scampò, con quelli ch’erano con lui nell’Arca.

24 E le acque furono alte sopra la terra, per lo spazio di cencinquanta giorni.

   


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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Arcana Coelestia # 737

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737. 'Noah was a son of six hundred years' means his initial state of temptation. This is clear from the fact from here down to Eber in Chapter 11 nothing else is meant by numbers, years of age, or names than real things, as was the case also with the ages and names of all those mentioned in Chapter 5. Here 'six hundred years' means the initial state of temptation. This becomes clear from its prime factors which are ten and six multiplied again by ten. When the same factors are involved it makes no difference whether the number arrived at is large or small. As for ten, this has been shown already at 6:3 to mean remnants, while the meaning of six here as labour and conflict is clear from places throughout the Word. For the situation is this: What has gone before dealt with man's preparation for temptation, that is to say, he was supplied by the Lord with truths of the understanding and with goods of the will. These truths and goods are remnants, but they are not brought forth so as to be acknowledged until man is being regenerated. In the case of those who are being regenerated by means of temptations the remnants existing with any man are for the angels present with him. From these remnants they draw out those things with which they protect him against the evil spirits who activate falsities with him and in this way attack him. It is because remnants are meant by 'ten' and conflict by 'six' that six hundred years are spoken of, a number in which ten and six are the prime factors and which means a state of temptation.

[2] As regards conflict being the particular meaning of 'six', this is clear from Genesis 1, which describes the six days of man's regeneration prior to his becoming celestial. During those six days there was constant conflict, but on the seventh day came rest. Consequently there are six days of labour, and the seventh is the sabbath, a word which means rest. This also is why a Hebrew slave was to serve for six years and in the seventh was to go free, Exodus 21:2; Deuteronomy 15:12; Jeremiah 34:14, and why for six years they were to sow the land and gather in the produce, but in the seventh they were to leave it alone, Exodus 23:10-12. The same applied to a vineyard. It is also the reason why in the seventh year the land was to have a sabbath of rest, a sabbath to Jehovah, Leviticus 25:3-4. Because 'six' means labour and conflict it also means the dispersion of falsity, as in Ezekiel,

Behold, six men coming from the direction of the upper gate, which looks towards the north, every man with a weapon of dispersion in his hand. Ezekiel 9:2.

And in the same prophet, against Gog,

I will cause you to turn about, and I will split you into six, and cause you to come up from the uttermost parts of the north. Ezekiel 39:2.

Here 'six' and 'splitting into six' stand for dispersion, 'the north' for falsities, and 'Gog' for people who seize on doctrinal matters based on things of an external nature with which they destroy internal worship. From Job,

He will deliver you in six troubles, and in a seventh no evil will touch you. Job 5:19.

This stands for the conflict that constitutes temptations.

[3] 'Six' occurs in other parts of the Word where it does not mean labour, conflict, or the dispersion of falsity, but the holiness of faith. In these instances it is related to twelve, which means faith and all things of faith in their entirety, and to three which means that which is holy. Consequently there is also a genuine derivative meaning to the number six, as in Ezekiel 40:5, where the man's measuring rod with which he measured the holy city of Israel was six cubits long; and in other places. The reason for this derivative is that in the conflict of temptation the holiness of faith is present, and also that six days of labour and conflict look forward to the holy seventh day.

  
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