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Levitico 5

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1 E QUANDO alcuno avrà peccato, perciocchè avrà udita la voce di una dinunziazione con giuramento di alcuna cosa, onde egli sia testimonio o che l’abbia veduta, o che l’abbia altramente saputa, e non l’avrà dichiarata; egli porterà la sua iniquità.

2 Parimente, quando alcuno avrà toccata alcuna cosa immonda, carogna di fiera immonda, o carogna di animal domestico immondo, o carogna di rettile immondo; avvenga ch’egli l’abbia fatto per ignoranza, pure è immondo, e colpevole.

3 Così, quando egli avrà toccata alcuna immondizia dell’uomo, secondo ogni sua immondizia, per la quale egli è contaminato, benchè egli non l’abbia fatto saputamente, se viene a saperlo, egli è colpevole.

4 Similmente, quando alcuno avrà giurato, profferendo leggermente con le sue labbra di voler male o ben fare, secondo tutte le cose che gli uomini sogliono profferir leggermente con giuramento; ed egli non ne ha più conoscenza; se viene a saperlo, egli è colpevole in una di queste maniere.

5 Quando adunque alcuno sarà colpevole in una di queste maniere, faccia la confession del peccato ch’egli avrà commesso.

6 E adduca al Signore il sacrificio per la sua colpa, per lo peccato ch’egli avrà commesso, cioè: una femmina del minuto bestiame, o pecora, o capra, per lo peccato. E faccia il sacerdote il purgamento del peccato di esso.

7 E se pur la possibilità di colui non potrà fornire una pecora, o una capra, adduca al Signore, per sacrificio per la sua colpa, in ciò che avrà peccato, due tortole, o due pippioni; l’uno per sacrificio per lo peccato, e l’altro per olocausto.

8 E portili al sacerdote; ed esso offerisca imprima quello che sarà per lo peccato, e torcendogli il collo, gli spicchi il capo appresso al collo, senza però spartirlo in due.

9 Poi sparga del sangue del sacrificio per lo peccato sopra una delle pareti dell’Altare, e spremasi il rimanente del sangue appiè dell’Altare. Esso è sacrificio per lo peccato.

10 E dell’altro facciane olocausto, secondo ch’è ordinato. E così il sacerdote farà il purgamento del peccato che colui avrà commesso, e gli sarà perdonato.

11 E se colui non può fornire pur due tortole, o due pippioni, porti per sua offerta, per ciò ch’egli avrà peccato, la decima parte d’un efa di fior di farina, per offerta per lo peccato; non mettavi sopra nè olio, nè incenso; perciocchè è un’offerta per lo peccato.

12 Porti adunque quella farina al sacerdote, e prendane il sacerdote una menata piena per la ricordanza di quella; e facciala bruciar sopra l’Altare, in su l’offerte fatte per fuoco al Signore. Ella è un’offerta per lo peccato.

13 E così il sacerdote farà il purgamento per esso del peccato che egli avrà commesso in una di quelle maniere, e gli sarà perdonato. E sia il rimanente di quella farina del sacerdote, come l’offerta di panatica.

14 Il Signore parlò, oltre a ciò, a Mosè, dicendo:

15 Quando alcuno avrà misfatto, e peccato per errore, prendendo delle cose consacrate al Signore, adduca al Signore, per sacrificio per la sua colpa, un montone senza difetto, del prezzo di tanti sicli d’argento, a siclo di Santuario, che tu l’avrai tassato per la colpa.

16 E restituisca ciò in che egli avrà peccato, prendendo delle cose consacrate, e sopraggiungavi il quinto, e dialo al sacerdote; e faccia il sacerdote, con quel montone del sacrificio per la colpa, il purgamento del peccato di esso; e gli sarà perdonato.

17 In somma, quando una persona avrà peccato, e avrà fatta alcuna di tutte quelle cose che il Signore ha vietate di fare, benchè egli non l’abbia fatto saputamente, pure è colpevole; e deve portar la sua iniquità.

18 Adduca adunque al sacerdote un montone del prezzo che tu l’avrai tassato per la colpa; e faccia il sacerdote il purgamento dell’errore ch’egli avrà commesso per ignoranza; e gli sarà perdonato.

19 Ciò è colpa; egli del tutto si è renduto colpevole inverso il Signore.

   


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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79. And he laid his right hand upon me. That this signifies life from Him, is evident from the signification of right hand, when said of the Lord, as being life from Him (concerning this see above, n. 72). The reason why this signifies life from the Lord, is, that it follows immediately after the words, "I fell at his feet as dead." And, moreover, by touching with the hand, is signified to communicate and transfer to another that which belongs to oneself, and also to receive from another and to communicate and transfer to another what belongs to oneself, when said of the Lord, as in this passage, denotes life, such as is communicated to those who are in a state of enlightenment, and see and hear such things as are in heaven. This also was the case with John; for he was in such a state of enlightenment when he saw and heard the things described in the Apocalypse.

[2] The reason why to touch with the hand denotes to communicate, and to transfer to another, is, because all the power of man is transferred from the body into the hands; therefore, what the mind wills that the body should do, the arms and hands perform accordingly. Hence it is that by arms and hands in the Word is signified power (as may be seen, Arcana Coelestia 878, 3091, 4931-4937. 7673, 10019); this power, however, is natural power, and communication thereby is the exertion of the forces of the body; but spiritual power is to will the good of another, and, as much as possible, to be willing to transfer to another what belongs to oneself. This power is signified by hand in the spiritual sense, and its communication and translation by touching with the hand.

From these considerations it is evident that, by the Lord, who is there called the Son of man, laying His right hand upon John, when he lay as dead, is signified, that He communicated and transferred to him life from Himself (concerning which, see above).

[3] To touch, and to touch with the hand, has a similar signification in many passages in the Word, as in the following. In Daniel:

The Lord, who there appeared to him as a man clothed in linen, whose aspect was as the appearance of lightning, and His eyes as torches of fire, and His feet as the brightness of polished brass, touched him; restored him to his station; set him upon his knees; touched his lips, and opened his mouth; and again touched him, and strengthened him (10:4 to the end).

In Jeremiah:

"Jehovah put forth his hand and touched my mouth, and said, I give my words into thy mouth" (1:9).

And in Matthew:

Jesus put forth His and to the leper "and touched him, saying, I will, be thou clean. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed" (8:3).

In the same:

Jesus saw Peter's wife's mother sick of a fever "and he touched her hand, and the fever left her" (8:14, 15).

In the same:

Jesus touched the eyes of two blind men and their eyes were opened (9:29).

In the same:

"While Peter was speaking, behold a bright cloud overshadowed the disciples, and behold a voice out of the cloud which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him. And when the disciples heard it, they fell upon their face, and were sore afraid. Then Jesus came near and touched them, and said, Arise, be not afraid" (17:5-7).

In Luke:

Jesus came and touched the bier of the dead man, and said, "Young man, I say unto thee, Arise. Then he that was dead sat up, and began to speak" (7:14, 15).

In the same:

Jesus touched the ear of the deaf man, and healed him (22:51).

In Mark:

"They brought young children to him, that he should touch them. And he took them up in his arms, put his hands upon them, and blessed them" (10:13, 16).

In the same:

They brought unto Jesus those that were sick "that they might touch the hem of his garment; and as many as touched were made whole" (Matthew 14:35, 36).

In Luke:

"A woman having an issue of blood, touched the border of Jesus' garment; and immediately her issue of blood stanched. Jesus said, Some one hath touched me, for I perceive that virtue is gone out of me" (8:43, 44, 46).

[4] Because by the touching and laying on of hands, is signified to communicate and transfer to another what is one's own, therefore from ancient times it has been customary in the churches to lay hands upon the heads of those who were inaugurated and blessed, as Moses was commanded to do in the case of Joshua (Numbers 27:18-23; Deuteronomy 34:9). Since all things among the sons of Israel were representative and significative of spiritual things, so also was the touch; therefore those were sanctified who touched what was holy, and those were polluted who touched what was unclean, for the touch signified communication and transference from one to another, and reception from one by another; as is evident from the following passages in Moses: whosoever shall touch the tent of the assembly, the ark of the testimony, the table and all its vessels, the lampstand and its vessels, the altar of incense, the altar of burnt offering and all its vessels, and the laver and its foot, shall be holy (Exodus 30:26-29). Whatsoever touched the altar should be holy (Exodus 29:37). Every thing which touched the remainder of the meat-offering, and the remainder of the flesh from the sacrifices, should be holy (Leviticus 6:11-20).

"Whosoever touched a dead body, and purified not himself, defiled the tabernacle of Jehovah; therefore that soul should be cut off from Israel. Whosoever touched one that was slain with a sword in the open fields, or a bone of a man, or a grave, should be unclean seven days. He that toucheth the waters of separation, shall be unclean until even. Whatsoever the unclean person toucheth shall be unclean until even" (Numbers 19:11, 13, 16, 21, 22).

He who toucheth unclean beasts, and unclean creeping things, shall be unclean; everything upon which they shall fall shall be unclean, whether a vessel of wood, raiment, water, an earthen vessel, food, drink, an oven, except a fountain, pit, a receptacle of waters, shall be unclean (Leviticus 11:31-36). Besides other places, as Leviticus 5:2, 3; 7:21; 11:37, 38; 15:1 to the end; 22:4; Numbers 16:26; Isaiah 52:11; Lamentations 4:14, 15; Hosea 4:2, 3; Haggai 2:12, 13, 14.

  
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Translation by Isaiah Tansley. Many thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.