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Malachia 4

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1 Perciocchè, ecco, quel giorno viene, ardente come un forno; e tutti i superbi, e chiunque opera empiamente, saran come stoppia; e il giorno che viene li divamperà, ha detto il Signor degli eserciti; talchè non lascerà loro nè radice, nè ramo.

2 Ma a voi, che temete il mio Nome, si leverà il Sole della giustizia, e guarigione sarà nelle sue ale; e voi uscirete, e saltellerete a guisa di vitelli di stia.

3 E calpesterete gli empi; perciocchè saran come cenere sotto la pianta de’ vostri piedi, nel giorno che io opererò, ha detto il Signor degli eserciti.

4 Ricordatevi della Legge di Mosè, mio servitore; al quale io ordinai, in Horeb, statuti e leggi, per tutto Israele.

5 Ecco, io vi mando il profeta Elia, avanti che venga quel grande e spaventevole giorno del Signore.

6 Ed egli convertirà il cuor de’ padri a’ figliuoli, e il cuor de’ figliuoli a’ lor padri; che talora io non venga, e non percuota la terra di sterminio a modo d’interdetto.

   


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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Rudolf von Arthaber with his Children, by Friedrich von Amerling

Father in the Word means what is most interior, and in those things that are following the Lord's order, it means what is good. In the highest sense Father means the Lord Himself, the creator. In the generation of natural children it is the father who provides the soul or the most interior receptacle of life, and an internal heredity, and the mother who provides all of the substance that the soul uses to form its body, plus an external heredity. In this process the soul comes from the Lord through the father, and not from the father, since all life is from the Lord. The wise person calls the Lord his father and the church his mother because his interior loves come from the Lord, but are given form and actuality through the truths taught by the church. Those things thus brought forth are a person's spiritual "children". In the New Testament, when speaking of Jesus and the Father, what is meant is the outward manifestation with the divine itself as the soul inside. Because Jesus was born from a natural mother, He had a natural body and a natural Jewish heredity. Throughout his life as He was tempted by the hells, He slowly put off all he had from His mother and replaced it with what He had from Himself inside, the Father. In doing this he made himself one with the Father that was His inmost so He could truly say, "I and my Father are one".