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Genesi 9

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1 E IDDIO benedisse Noè, e i suoi figliuoli; e disse loro; Fruttate, e moltiplicate, e riempiete la terra.

2 E la paura e lo spavento di voi sia sopra tutte le bestie della terra, e sopra tutti gli uccelli del cielo; essi vi son dati nelle mani, insieme con tutto ciò che serpe sopra la terra, e tutti i pesci del mare.

3 Ogni cosa che si muove, ed ha vita, vi sarà per cibo; io ve le do tutte, come l’erbe verdi.

4 Ma pur non mangiate la carne con l’anima sua, ch’è il suo sangue.

5 E certamente io ridomanderò conto del vostro sangue, per le vostre persone; io ne ridomanderò conto ad ogni bestia, ed agli uomini; io ridomanderò conto della vita dell’uomo a qualunque suo fratello.

6 Il sangue di colui che spanderà il sangue dell’uomo sarà sparso dall’uomo; perciocchè Iddio ha fatto l’uomo alla sua immagine.

7 Voi dunque fruttate e moltiplicate; generate copiosamente sulla terra, e crescete in essa.

8 Poi Iddio parlò a Noè, ed a’ suoi figliuoli con lui, dicendo:

9 E quant’è a me, ecco, io fermo il mio patto con voi, e con la vostra progenie dopo voi;

10 e con ogni animal vivente ch’è con voi, così degli uccelli, come degli animali domestici, e di tutte le fiere della terra, con voi; così con quelle che sono uscite fuor dell’Arca, come con ogni altra bestia della terra.

11 Io fermo il mio patto con voi, che ogni carne non sarà più distrutta per le acque del diluvio, e che non vi sarà più diluvio, per guastar la terra.

12 Oltre a ciò, Iddio disse: Questo sarà il segno del patto che io fo fra me e voi e tutti gli animali viventi, che son con voi, in perpetuo per ogni generazione.

13 Io ho messo il mio Arco nella nuvola; ed esso sarà per segno del patto fra me e la terra.

14 Ed avverrà che, quando io avrò coperta la terra di nuvole, l’Arco apparirà nella nuvola.

15 Ed io mi ricorderò del mio patto, ch’è fra me e voi, ed ogni animal vivente, di qualunque carne; e le acque non faranno più diluvio, per distruggere ogni carne.

16 L’Arco adunque sarà nella nuvola, ed io lo riguarderò, per ricordarmi del patto perpetuo, fra Dio ed ogni animal vivente, di qualunque carne ch’è sopra la terra.

17 Così Iddio disse a Noè: Questo è il segno del patto, che io ho fermato fra me ed ogni carne ch’è sopra la terra.

18 OR i figliuoli di Noè, che uscirono fuor dell’Arca, furono Sem, Cam e Iafet.

19 E Cam fu padre di Canaan. Questi tre furono figliuoli di Noè; e da essi, sparsi per tutta la terra, ella è stata popolata.

20 E Noè cominciò ad esser lavorator della terra e piantò la vigna.

21 E bevve del vino, e s’inebbriò, e si scoperse in mezzo del suo tabernacolo.

22 E Cam, padre di Canaan, vide le vergogne di suo padre, e lo rapportò fuori a’ suoi due fratelli.

23 Ma Sem e Iafet presero un mantello, e se lo misero amendue in su le spalle; e, camminando a ritroso, copersero le vergogne del padre loro; e le faccie loro erano volte indietro, tal che non videro le vergogne del padre loro.

24 E, quando Noè si fu svegliato dal suo vino, seppe ciò che gli avea fatto il suo figliuol minore.

25 E disse: Maledetto sia Canaan; sia servo de’ servi de’ suoi fratelli.

26 Ma disse: Benedetto sia il Signore Iddio di Sem, e sia Canaan lor servo.

27 Iddio allarghi Iafet, ed abiti egli ne’ tabernacoli di Sem; e sia Canaan lor servo.

28 E Noè visse dopo il diluvio trecencinquanta anni.

29 E tutto il tempo che Noè visse fu novecencinquento anni; poi morì.

   


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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1071. And he drank of the wine. That this signifies that he desired to investigate the things which are of faith, is evident from the signification of “wine.” The “vineyard” or the “vine” as has been shown, is the spiritual church, or the man of the spiritual church; the “grape” “bunches” and “clusters” are its fruit, and signify charity and what is of charity. But “wine” signifies the faith thence derived, and all things that belong to it. Thus the “grape” is the celestial of that church, and the “wine” is the spiritual of that church. The former, or the celestial, is of the will, as has been said before; the latter, or the spiritual, is of the understanding. That his “drinking of the wine” signifies that he desired to investigate the things of faith, and this by reasonings, is evident from his becoming drunken, that is, fallen into errors. For the man of this church had no perception, as had the man of the Most Ancient Church, but had to learn what was good and true from the doctrinal things of faith collected and preserved from the perception of the Most Ancient Church, which doctrinal things were the Word of the Ancient Church. Like the Word, the doctrinal things of faith were in many cases such as without perception could not be believed; for spiritual and celestial things infinitely transcend human apprehension, and hence arises reasoning. But he who will not believe them until he apprehends them, can never believe, as has been often shown before. (See n. 128-130, 195, 196, 215, 232, 233.)

[2] That “grapes” in the Word signify charity and what is of charity, and that “wine” signifies the faith thence derived and the things that belong to it, is evident from the following passages.

In Isaiah:

My beloved had a vineyard in a horn of the son of oil, and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes (Isaiah 5:1-2, 4), where “grapes” denote charity and its fruits.

In Jeremiah:

Gathering I will gather them, saith Jehovah; there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree (Jeremiah 8:13), where the “vine” denotes the spiritual church; “grapes” charity.

In Hosea:

I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the first-ripe in the fig-tree, at the beginning (Hosea 9:10).

“Israel” denotes the Ancient Church; “grapes” its being endued with charity. The sense is opposite when “Israel” denotes the sons of Jacob.

In Micah:

There is no cluster to eat; my soul desireth the first-ripe fig. The holy man is perished out of the earth, and there is none upright among men (Micah 7:1).

“Cluster” denotes charity, or what is holy; “first-ripe fig” faith, or what is right.

[3] In Isaiah:

Thus saith Jehovah, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one saith, Destroy it not, for a blessing is in it (Isaiah 65:8); where “cluster” denotes charity, and “new wine” the goods of charity and the truths thence derived.

In Moses:

He washed His garment in wine, and His vesture in the blood of grapes (Genesis 49:11); a prophecy relating to the Lord. “Wine” denotes the spiritual from the celestial, the “blood of grapes” the celestial relatively to spiritual churches. Thus “grapes” denote charity itself, “wine” faith itself.

In John:

The angel said, Put forth thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe (Revelation 14:18).

Here the subject is the last times when there is no faith, that is, when there is no charity; for faith is no other than of charity, and essentially is charity itself; so that when it is said that there is no longer any faith, as in the last times, it is meant that there is no charity.

[4] As “grapes” signify charity, so “wine” signifies the faith thence derived, for wine is from grapes. This will be evident from the passages already cited about the vineyard and the vine, and also from the following.

In Isaiah:

Gladness is taken away, and exultation, from Carmel; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither joyful noise; no treader shall tread out wine in the presses; I have made the vintage shout to cease (Isaiah 16:10),

meaning that the spiritual church, which is “Carmel” is vastated; “not treading out wine in the presses” means that there are no longer any who are in faith. Again:

The inhabitants of the earth are burned, and man shall be left feeble; the new wine shall mourn, the vine shall languish; they shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it; there is a crying in the streets because of the wine (Isaiah 24:6-7, 9, 11).The subject here is the vastated church, and “wine” denotes the truths of faith, there held to be of no value.

In Jeremiah:

They will say to their mothers, where is the corn and the wine? when they faint as one wounded in the streets of the city (Lamentations 2:12).

“Where is the corn and the wine” signifies where is love and faith; the “streets of the city” signify here, as elsewhere in the Word, truths; “being wounded in them” signifies not to know what the truths of faith are.

[5] In Amos:

I will bring again the captivity of My people Israel, and they shall build the waste cities and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof (Amos 9:14).

This is said of the spiritual church, or “Israel” of which planting vineyards and drinking the wine thereof is predicated, when it becomes such as to have faith from charity.

In Zephaniah:

They shall build houses, but shall not inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, but shall not drink the wine thereof (Zephaniah 1:13; Amos 5:11).

Here is described the opposite condition, when the spiritual church is vastated.

In Zechariah:

They shall be as the mighty Ephraim, and their heart shall rejoice as through wine; yea, their sons shall see it and be glad (Zechariah 10:7); said of the house of Judah, that it should be such from the goods and truths of faith.

In John:

That they were not to hurt the oil and the wine (Revelation 6:6), meant that no injury is to be done to the celestial and the spiritual, or to what is of love and faith.

[6] As “wine” signified faith in the Lord, in the Jewish Church faith was represented in the sacrifices by a libation of wine (Numbers 15:2-15; 28:11-15, 18-31; 29:7-39; Leviticus 23:12-13; Exodus 29:40). Wherefore it is said in Hosea: The threshing-floor and the wine-press shall not feed them, and the new wine shall deceive therein; they shall not dwell in the land of Jehovah; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat what is unclean in Assyria; they shall not pour out wine to Jehovah, neither shall [their libations] be pleasing to Him (Hosea 9:2-4).

Here the subject is Israel, or the spiritual church, and those in it who pervert and defile the holy and true things of faith by desiring to investigate them by means of knowledges and reasonings. “Egypt” is memory-knowledge, “Assyria” reasoning, “Ephraim” one who reasons.

  
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