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Levitico 8

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1 IL Signore parlò, oltre a ciò, a Mosè, dicendo:

2 Prendi Aaronne, e i suoi figliuoli con lui; e i vestimenti, e l’olio dell’Unzione, e il giovenco per lo sacrificio per lo peccato, e i due montoni, e il paniere degli azzimi.

3 E aduna tutta la raunanza, all’entrata del Tabernacolo della convenenza.

4 E Mosè fece come il Signore gli avea comandato; e la raunanza fu adunata all’entrata del Tabernacolo della convenza.

5 E Mosè disse alla raunanza: Quest’è quello che il Signore ha comandato che si faccia.

6 E Mosè fece accostare Aaronne e i suoi figliuoli, e li lavò con acqua.

7 Poi mise indosso ad Aaronne la Tonica, e lo cinse con la Cintura; poi lo vestì del Manto, e gli mise l’Efod addosso, e lo cinse col fregio lavorato dell’Efod; e così con quello gli serrò le vesti addosso.

8 Poi mise sopra lui il Pettorale, nel quale pose Urim e Tummim.

9 Poi gli mise in capo la Benda; sopra la quale, in su la parte anteriore di essa, mise la lama d’oro, il Diadema di santità; come il Signore avea comandato a Mosè.

10 Poi Mosè prese l’olio dell’Unzione, e unse il Tabernacolo, e tutte le cose che erano in esso; e le consacrò.

11 E ne spruzzò l’Altare per sette volte, e unse l’Altare, e tutti i suoi strumenti; e la Conca, e il suo piede; per consacrar quelle cose.

12 Poi versò dell’olio dell’Unzione in sul capo di Aaronne; e l’unse, per consacrarlo.

13 Poi Mosè fece accostare i figliuoli di Aaronne e li vestì delle toniche, e li cinse con le cinture, e allacciò loro le mitrie; come il Signore gli avea comandato.

14 Appresso fece accostare il giovenco del sacrificio per lo peccato; e Aaronne e i suoi figliuoli posarono le mani in sul capo del giovenco del sacrificio per lo peccato.

15 Poi Mosè lo scannò, e ne prese del sangue, e lo mise col dito in su le corna dell’Altare, attorno attorno, e purgò l’Altare; e versò il rimanente del sangue appiè dell’Altare; e così consacrò l’Altare, per far purgamento del peccato sopra esso.

16 Appresso prese tutto il grasso ch’era sopra l’interiora, e la rete del fegato, e i due arnioni, col grasso loro; e Mosè fece bruciar quelle cose sopra l’Altare.

17 Ma bruciò col fuoco fuor del campo il giovenco, e la sua pelle, e la sua carne, e il suo sterco; come il Signore gli avea comandato.

18 Poi fece appressare il montone dell’olocausto; e Aaronne e i suoi figliuoli posarono le mani in sul capo del montone.

19 E Mosè lo scannò, e ne sparse il sangue sopra l’Altare, attorno attorno.

20 Poi tagliò il montone a pezzi; e fece bruciare il capo, e i pezzi, e la corata.

21 E lavò con acqua l’interiora, e le gambe; e così fece bruciar tutto quel montone sopra l’Altare; come olocausto di soave odore, e offerta fatta per fuoco al Signore; come il Signore gli avea comandato.

22 Poi fece appressare il secondo montone, il montone delle consacrazioni; e Aaronne e i suoi figliuoli posarono le mani in sul capo di esso.

23 E Mosè lo scannò, e ne prese del sangue, e lo mise in sul tenerume dell’orecchia destra di Aaronne, e sopra il dito grosso della man destra di esso, e sopra il dito grosso del suo piè destro.

24 Poi fece appressare i figliuoli di Aaronne, e pose di quel sangue in sul tenerume della loro orecchia destra, e sopra il dito grosso della lor mano destra, e sopra il dito grosso del lor piè destro; e sparse il rimanente di quel sangue in su l’Altare, attorno attorno.

25 Poi prese il grasso, e la coda, e tutto il grasso ch’era sopra l’interiora, e la rete del fegato, e i due arnioni, col grasso loro, e la spalla destra.

26 E del paniere degli azzimi, ch’era davanti al Signore, prese una focaccia azzima, e una focaccia di pane fatta con olio, e una schiacciata; e pose quelle sopra que’ grassi, e sopra la spalla destra.

27 Poi mise tutte quelle cose in su le palme delle mani di Aaronne, e in su le palme delle mani de’ suoi figliuoli; e le fece dimenare per offerta dimenata, nel cospetto del Signore.

28 Poi Mosè prese quelle cose d’in su le lor mani, e le fece bruciare sopra l’Altare, sopra l’olocausto; come offerte di consacrazioni, di odor soave, offerta fatta per fuoco al Signore.

29 Poi Mosè prese il petto di quel montone, e lo dimenò per offerta dimenata, nel cospetto del Signore; e Mosè ebbe quello per la sua parte del montone delle consacrazioni; come il Signore gli avea comandato.

30 Oltre a ciò, Mosè prese dell’olio dell’Unzione, e del sangue ch’era sopra l’Altare, e ne spruzzò Aaronne e i suoi vestimenti; e i figliuoli di esso, e i lor vestimenti; e così consacrò Aaronne e i suoi vestimenti; e i suoi figliuoli, e i vestimenti de’ suoi figliuoli.

31 E Mosè disse ad Aaronne e a’ suoi figliuoli: Fate cuocere cotesta carne all’entrata del Tabernacolo della convenenza, e quivi mangiatela; insieme col pane ch’è nel paniere dell’offerta delle consacrazioni; come mi è stato comandato, dicendo: Mangino Aaronne e i suoi figliuoli quelle cose.

32 E bruciate col fuoco ciò che rimarrà della carne e del pane.

33 E non vi dipartite dall’entrata del Tabernacolo della convenenza, per sette giorni; finchè non sieno compiuti i giorni delle vostre consacrazioni; conciossiachè abbiate ad esser consacrati nel vostro ufficio per lo spazio di sette giorni.

34 Come si è oggi fatto, così avea il Signore comandato che si facesse, per far purgamento de’ vostri peccati.

35 Dimorate adunque all’entrata del Tabernacolo della convenenza per sette giorni, dì e notte; e osservate ciò che il Signore ha comandato che si osservi; acciocchè non muoiate: perciocchè così mi è stato comandato.

36 E Aaronne e i suoi figliuoli fecero tutte le cose che il Signore avea comandate per Mosè.

   


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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9229. And ye shall be men of holiness to Me. That this signifies the state of life then from good, is evident from the signification of “men of holiness,” as being those who are led by the Lord; for the Divine which proceeds from the Lord is holiness itself (see n. 6788, 7499, 8127, 8302, 8806), consequently those who receive it in faith and also in love are called “holy.” He who believes that a man is holy from any other source, and that anything else with him is holy than that which is from the Lord and is received, is very much mistaken. For that which is of man and is called his own, is evil. (That man’s own is nothing but evil, see n. 210, 215, 694, 874-876, 987, 1047, 4328, 5660, 5786, 8480, 8944; and that insofar as a man can be withheld from his own, so far the Lord can he present, thus that so far the man has holiness, n. 1023, 1044, 1581, 2256, 2388, 2406, 2411, 8206, 8393, 8988, 9014)

[2] That the Lord alone is holy, and that that alone is holy which proceeds from the Lord, thus that which man receives from the Lord, is plain from the Word throughout; as in John:

I sanctify Myself that they also may be sanctified in the truth (John 17:19);

“to sanctify Himself” denotes to make Himself Divine by His own power; and those are said to be “sanctified in the truth” who in faith and life receive the Divine truth proceeding from Him.

[3] Therefore also the Lord after His resurrection, speaking with the disciples, “breathed on them” and said unto them, “Receive ye the Holy Spirit” (John 20:22); the breathing upon them was representative of making them alive by faith and love, as also in the second chapter of Genesis: “Jehovah breathed into his nostrils the breath of lives, and man became a living soul” (verse 7); in like manner in other passages (Psalms 33:6; 104:29-30; Job 32:8; 33:4; John 3:8). From this also the Word is said to be inspired, because it is from the Lord, and they who wrote the Word are said to have been inspired. (That breathing, and thus inspiration, corresponds to the life of faith, see n. 97, 1119, 1120, 3883-3896.) From this it is that in the Word “spirit” is so called from “wind” or “breath,” and that what is holy from the Lord is called “the wind or breath of Jehovah” (n. 8286); also that the Holy Spirit is the holy proceeding from the the Lord, (n. 3704, 4673, 5307, 6788, 6982, 6993, 8127, 8302, 9199).

[4] So also it is said in John that the Lord “baptizeth with the Holy Spirit” (John 1:33); and in Luke that “He baptizeth with the Holy Spirit and with fire” (John 3:16). In the internal sense “to baptize” signifies to regenerate (n. 4255, 5120, 9088); “to baptize with the Holy Spirit and with fire” signifies to regenerate by the good of love. (That “fire” denotes the good of love, see n. 934, 4906, 5215, 6314, 6832, 6834, 6849, 7324) In John:

Who shall not fear Thee, O Lord, and glorify Thy name? For Thou only art holy (Revelation 15:4).

In Luke it is said by the angel concerning the Lord: “The holy thing that shall be born of thee” (Luke 1:35); and in Daniel, “I saw in the visions of my head upon my bed, and, behold a watcher and a holy one came down from heaven” (Daniel 4:13). In these passages “the holy thing” and “the holy one” denote the Lord.

[5] As the Lord alone is holy, He is called in the Old Testament the “Holy One of Israel,” the “Redeemer,” the “Preserver,” the “Regenerator” (Isaiah 1:4; 5:19, 24; 10:20; 12:6; 17:7; 29:19; 30:11-12, 15; 31:1; 37:23 41:14, 16, 20; 43:3, 14; 45:11; 47:4; 48:17; 49:7; 5 4:5; 55:5; 60:9, 14; Jeremiah 50:29; 51:5; Ezekiel 39:7; Psalms 71:22; 78:41; 89:18). And therefore the Lord in heaven, and consequently heaven itself, is called “the habitation of holiness” (Jeremiah 31:23; Isaiah 63:15; Jeremiah 25:30); also a “sanctuary” (Ezekiel 11:16; 24:21); and “the mountain of holiness” (Psalms 48:1). For the same reason the middle of the tent, where was the ark containing the Law, was called the “Holy of Holies (Exodus 26:33-34); for by the Law in the ark in the middle of the tent was represented the Lord as to the Word, because “the Law” denotes the Word (n. 6752, 7463).

[6] All this shows why the angels are called “holy” (Matthew 25:31; Mark 8:38; Luke 9:26; Psalms 149:1; Daniel 8:13); also the prophets (Luke 1:70); and likewise the apostles (Revelation 18:20); not that they are holy from themselves, but from the Lord, who alone is holy, and from whom alone proceeds what is holy; for by “angels” are signified truths, because they are receptions of truth from the the Lord, (n. 1925, 4085, 4295, 4402, 7268, 7873, 8192, 8301); by “prophets” is signified the doctrine of truth which comes through the Word from the the Lord, (n. 2534, 7269); and by “apostles” are signified in their complex all the truths and goods of faith which are from the the Lord, (n. 3488, 3858, 6397).

[7] The sanctifications among the Israelitish and Jewish people were for the purpose of representing the Lord who alone is holy, and the holiness which is from Him alone. This was the purpose of the sanctification of Aaron and his sons (Exodus 29:1, etc.; Leviticus 8:10-11, 13, 30); of the sanctification of their garments (Exodus 29:21, etc.); of the sanctification of the altar, that it might be a holy of holies (Exodus 29:37, etc.); of the sanctification of the tent of the assembly, of the ark of the testimony, of the table, of all the vessels, of the altar of incense, of the altar of burnt-offering, and of the vessels thereof, and of the laver and the base thereof (Exodus 30:26, etc.).

[8] That the Lord is the holiness itself that was represented, is also plain from His words in Matthew, as viewed in the internal sense:

Ye fools and blind! Whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold? And whether is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift? (Matthew 23:17, 19);

by the temple was represented the Lord Himself, and also by the altar; and by the “gold” was signified the good which is from the Lord; and by the “gift” or sacrifice, were signified the things that belong to faith and charity from the Lord. (That the Lord was represented by the temple, see n. 2777, 3720; also that He was represented by the altar, n. 2777, 2811, 4489, 8935, 8940 and that by “gold” was signified good from the Lord, n. 1551, 1552, 5658; and by a “sacrifice” worship from the faith and charity which are from the Lord, n. 922, 923, 2805, 2807, 2830, 6905, 8680, 8682, 8936)

[9] In view of all this it is evident why the sons of Israel were called a “holy people” (Deuteronomy 26:19, and elsewhere); and in the words before us “men of holiness;” namely, from the fact that in every detail of their worship were represented the Divine things of the Lord, and the celestial and spiritual things of His kingdom and church. They were therefore called “holy” in a representative sense. They themselves were not holy on this account, because the representatives had regard to the holy things that were represented, and not to the person who represented them (n. 665, 1097, 1361, 3147, 3881, 4208, 4281, 4288, 4292, 4307, 4444, 4500, 6304, 7048, 7439, 8588, 8788, 8806).

[10] Hence also it is that Jerusalem was called “holy;” and Zion, “the mountain of holiness” (Zech. 8:3, and elsewhere). Also in Matthew:

And the tombs were opened; and many bodies of the saints that were dead were raised; and coming forth out of their tombs after the Lord’s resurrection, they entered into the holy city, and appeared unto many (Matthew 27:52-53);

Jerusalem is here called “the holy city,” although it was rather profane than holy, for the Lord had then been crucified in it, and it is therefore called “Sodom and Egypt” in John:

Their bodies shall lie on the street of the great city which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified (Revelation 11:8).

But it is called “holy” from the fact that it signifies the Lord’s kingdom and church (n. 402, 2117, 3654). The “saints that were dead” appearing there, which happened to some in vision, signified the salvation of those who were of the spiritual church, and the elevation into the Holy Jerusalem, which is heaven, of those who until that time had been detained in the lower earth (of which above, n. 6854, 6914, 7090, 7828, 7932, 8049, 8054, 8159, 8321).

  
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