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1 GUARDATEVI dal praticare la vostra giustizia nel cospetto degli uomini, per esser da loro riguardati; altrimenti, voi non ne avrete premio appo il Padre vostro, che è ne’ cieli.

2 Quando adunque tu farai limosina, non far sonar la tromba dinanzi a te, come fanno gl’ipocriti nelle sinagoghe e nelle piazze, per essere onorati dagli uomini; io vi dico in verità, che ricevono il premio loro.

3 Ma quando tu fai limosina, non sappia la tua sinistra quello che fa la destra,

4 acciocchè la tua limosina si faccia in segreto; e il Padre tuo, che riguarda in segreto, te ne renderà la retribuzione in palese.

5 E quando tu farai orazione, non esser come gl’ipocriti; perciocchè essi amano di fare orazione, stando ritti in piè, nelle sinagoghe, e ne’ canti delle piazze, per esser veduti dagli uomini; io vi dico in verità, che ricevono il loro premio.

6 Ma tu, quando farai orazione, entra nella tua cameretta, e serra il tuo uscio, e fa’ orazione al Padre tuo, che è in segreto; e il Padre tuo, che riguarda in segreto, ti renderà la tua retribuzione in palese.

7 Ora, quando farete orazione, non usate soverchie dicerie, come i pagani; perciocchè pensano di essere esauditi per la moltitudine delle lor parole.

8 Non li rassomigliate adunque; perciocchè il Padre vostro sa le cose di che voi avete bisogno, innanzi che gliele chiediate.

9 Voi adunque orate in questa maniera: PADRE NOSTRO che sei ne’ cieli, sia santificato il tuo nome.

10 Il tuo regno venga. La tua volontà sia fatta in terra come in cielo.

11 Dacci oggi il nostro pane cotidiano.

12 E rimettici i nostri debiti, come noi ancora li rimettiamo a’ nostri debitori.

13 E non indurci in tentazione, ma liberaci dal maligno; perciocchè tuo è il regno, e la potenza, e la gloria, in sempiterno. Amen.

14 Perciocchè, se voi rimettete agli uomini i lor falli, il vostro Padre celeste rimetterà ancora a voi i vostri.

15 Ma se voi non rimettete agli uomini i lor falli, il Padre vostro altresì non vi rimetterà i vostri.

16 Ora, quando digiunerete, non siate mesti di aspetto, come gl’ipocriti; perciocchè essi si sformano le facce, acciocchè apparisca agli uomini che digiunano; io vi dico in verità, che ricevono il loro premio.

17 Ma tu, quando digiuni, ungiti il capo, e lavati la faccia;

18 acciocchè non apparisca agli uomini che tu digiuni, ma al Padre tuo, il quale è in segreto; e il Padre tuo, che riguarda in segreto, ti renderà la tua retribuzione in palese.

19 NON vi fate tesori in sulla terra, ove la tignuola e la ruggine guastano, e dove i ladri sconficcano e rubano.

20 Anzi, fatevi tesori in cielo, ove nè tignuola, nè ruggine guasta; ed ove i ladri non sconficcano, e non rubano.

21 Perciocchè, dove è il vostro tesoro, quivi eziandio sarà il vostro cuore.

22 La lampana del corpo è l’occhio; se dunque l’occhio tuo è puro, tutto il tuo corpo sarà illuminato.

23 Ma se l’occhio tuo è viziato, tutto il tuo corpo sarà tenebroso; se dunque il lume ch’è in te è tenebre, quante saranno le tenebre stesse?

24 Niuno può servire a due signori; perciocchè, o ne odierà l’uno, ed amerà l’altro; ovvero, si atterrà all’uno, e sprezzerà l’altro; voi non potete servire a Dio ed a Mammona.

25 Perciò, io vi dico: Non siate con ansietà solleciti per la vita vostra, di che mangerete, o di che berrete; nè per lo vostro corpo, di che vi vestirete; non è la vita più che il nutrimento, e il corpo più che il vestire?

26 Riguardate agli uccelli del cielo; come non seminano, e non mietono, e non accolgono in granai; e pure il Padre vostro celeste li nudrisce; non siete voi da molto più di loro?

27 E chi è colui di voi, che, con la sua sollecitudine, possa aggiungere alla sua statura pure un cubito?

28 Ed intorno al vestire, perchè siete con ansietà solleciti? considerate come crescono i gigli della campagna; essi non faticano, e non filano;

29 e pure io vi dico che Salomone stesso, con tutta la sua gloria, non fu vestito al pari dell’un di loro.

30 Or se Iddio riveste in questa maniera l’erba de’ campi, che oggi è, e domani è gettata nel forno, non vestirà egli molto più voi, o uomini di poca fede?

31 Non siate adunque con ansietà solleciti, dicendo: Che mangeremo, o che berremo, o di che saremo vestiti?

32 Poichè i pagani son quelli che procacciano tutte queste cose; perciocchè il Padre vostro celeste sa che voi avete bisogno di tutte queste cose.

33 Anzi, cercate in prima il regno di Dio, e la sua giustizia; e tutte queste cose vi saranno sopraggiunte.

34 Non siate adunque con ansietà solleciti del giorno di domani; perciocchè il giorno di domani sarà sollecito delle cose sue; basta a ciascun giorno il suo male.

   


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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847. And his number is six hundred sixty-six, signifies that its quality nevertheless is from all falsities and all evils therefrom in the complex. This is evident from the signification of "number," as being the quality of faith separated from the life; also from the signification of "six hundred sixty-six" as being all falsities and all evils therefrom in the complex. This is the signification of that number, because "six" signifies all things, and is predicated of truths and of goods therefrom, and in the contrary sense of falsities and of evils therefrom; for that number is composed of the numbers two and three multiplied together, and the number two is predicated of goods, and in the contrary sense of evils; and the number three of truths, and in the contrary sense of falsities; and a composite number has a similar signification as the simple numbers of which it is composed. This, then, is why "six" signifies all truths and all goods therefrom in the complex, and in the contrary sense all falsities and all evils therefrom in the complex. That all these may be signified to the full, that number is tripled; and by triplication the number 666 arises. For a thing triplicated signifies completeness and fullness from beginning to end; so here it signifies that nothing whatever of truth and good remains.

[2] That every number in the Word signifies something pertaining to a thing or state, and that its quality is determined by the numbers added, may be seen above (n. 203, 429, 574, 841). That larger numbers composed of the smaller have a similar signification as the smaller and simple numbers from which they arise by multiplication may be seen above n. 430; thus the number six hundred sixty-six has a similar signification as six, and six the like as three and two, from which it arises by multiplication. That three signifies fullness, completeness, altogether, and all things from beginning to end, and is predicated of truths and falsities, may be seen above (n. 532); and that two is likewise predicated of goods and evils (n. 532, at the end). Again, six has a similar signification as twelve, because twelve arises from the multiplication of three by four; and four, like two, is predicated of goods and also of evils. From this it is clear that the number "six hundred sixty-six," which is said to be "the number of a man," and "to count" which is said to be a matter of intelligence, signifies the quality of faith separated from good works, that it is composed of all falsities and of all evils therefrom in the complex. Its being said to be a matter of intelligence to count that number does not signify that it is a matter of intelligence to know or find out the signification of that number, but that it is a matter of intelligence to inquire into and see the falsities and evils that make up the quality of faith separated from life.

[3] That the quality of that faith is such in respect to falsities will be seen in what presently follows. It is also such in respect to evils because when good works are set aside (and they are set aside when it is believed that they contribute nothing at all to justification or salvation), it follows that evil works take their place; for a man must be either in goods or in evils. That he cannot be in both together is meant by these words of the Lord:

No one can serve two masters; he will either hate the one and love the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon (Matthew 6:24).

Therefore all evils in the complex follow from a faith that sets aside good works, which are the goods of life. Moreover, every religion has life as its end; for it teaches the evils that must be shunned, and the goods that are to be done. A religion that does not have life as its end, consequently a religion in which it is taught that the works of life are of no account, but faith alone, cannot be called a religion; and where this is taught, are not all evils of life permitted so far as they are not forbidden and restrained by the civil laws, since faith alone covers, remits, and takes them away? That this is so can be seen from this, that faith alone is said to justify the life; and yet it is taught that man is not saved by any good of life, also that he may be saved by this faith even in the last hour of death, also that he is justified at the same moment that he receives this faith, with other like things, which altogether persuade that life is not the end of that religion. And if religion does not have life as its end it follows that it must give loose reins to evils of every kind.

[4] That those who are in that faith both in doctrine and in life have all falsities in the complex is clear from the claim that this faith is the only justifying or saving faith, namely, that the Father sent the Son that He might reconcile to Him the human race by the passion of the cross and by thus taking away damnation. But it has been shown above what the quality of this faith is, and what there is in it of truth and untruth; and anyone can see that in this faith there is nothing except thought, and nothing of life; for it is said that if we believe this with trust and confidence, that is, if we acknowledge it in thought, we are saved. If in this faith alone there is salvation what need is there of knowing what love to the Lord is, what charity towards the neighbor is, what the life of man is, what the goods and evils of life are, what remission of sins is, what reformation and regeneration are? Are not all these this faith alone? If it be asked what remission of sins is, is it not this faith alone? If it be asked what charity towards the neighbor is, is it not this faith alone? If it be asked what the church is, is it not this faith alone? So in the rest. It is clear, therefore, that this faith alone has absorbed, and has swallowed up like a dragon, all the goods and truths of the Word, and thus of the church, although these are innumerable, and through these the angels have all their intelligence and wisdom, and men have all their salvation.

[5] As all the truths and goods of the church have been banished by means of this faith alone, it follows that falsities and evils therefrom have taken their place, and as a consequence the church is devastated. Yea, by means of this truth that man of himself can do no good that is good, all the truths and goods of the church are cast aside, as if this made it permissible for man to refrain from doing them, because if they are not good they are rather damnable than saving. And it is wonderful that through a single truth wrongly understood all the truths and goods of the church in the whole complex should have been cast aside. This is what is signified in the spiritual sense by "the number of the beast, six hundred sixty-six."

  
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