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Zaccaria 11

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1 APRI, o Libano, le tue porte, e il fuoco consumerà i tuoi cedri.

2 Urlate, abeti; perciocchè i cedri son caduti, e gli alberi nobili sono stati guasti; Urlate, querce di Basan; perciocchè la selva chiusa è stata abbattuta.

3 Vi è un grido d’urlo de’ pastori, perciocchè la lor gloria è stata guasta; vi è un grido di ruggito de’ leoncelli, perciocchè l’altezza del Giordano è stata guasta.

4 Così ha detto il Signore Iddio mio: Pastura le pecore esposte ad uccisione;

5 i cui comperatori le uccidono, e non ne son tenuti colpevoli; ed i cui venditori dicono: Benedetto sia il Signore; io son pure arricchito; ed i cui pastori non le risparmiano punto.

6 Perciocchè io non risparmierò più gli abitanti del paese, dice il Signore; anzi ecco, io farò cader gli uomini nelle mani l’un dell’altro, e nelle mani del loro re; ed essi metteranno il paese in conquasso, ed io non li riscoterò dalle lor mani.

7 Io adunque pasturai le pecore esposte ad uccisione, che son veramente le più povere della greggia; e mi presi due verghe; all’una posi nome: Piacevolezza, e all’altra posi nome: Vincoli; e pasturai la greggia.

8 Ed io sterminai tre pastori in un mese; ma l’anima mia si accorò per essi, ed anche l’anima loro mi ebbe a sdegno.

9 Ed io dissi: Io non vi pasturerò più; quella che muore muoia, quella che perisce perisca, e quelle che rimangono mangino la carne l’una dell’altra.

10 Ed io presi la mia verga, detta Piacevolezza, e la spezzai; annullando il mio patto, che io avea fatto con tutti i popoli.

11 E quello fu annullato in quel giorno, e i poveri d’infra la greggia che mi osservavano conobbero che ciò era parola del Signore.

12 Ed io dissi loro: Se così vi piace, datemi il mio premio; se no, rimanetevene. Ed essi mi pesarono trenta sicli d’argento per lo mio premio.

13 E il Signore mi disse: Gettali via, perchè sien dati ad un vasellaio; quest’è il prezzo onorevole, nel quale io sono stato da loro apprezzato. Io presi adunque i trenta sicli d’argento, e li gettai nella Casa del Signore, per esser dati ad un vasellaio.

14 Poi ruppi la mia seconda verga, detta Vincoli, rompendo la fratellanza fra Giuda ed Israele.

15 E il Signore mi disse: Prenditi ancora gli arnesi d’un pazzo pastore.

16 Perciocchè, ecco, io farò sorgere nel paese un pastore, il qual non avrà cura delle pecore che periranno; egli non cercherà le disperse, e non risanerà le fiaccate, e non sostenterà quelle che stanno ancora in piè; anzi mangerà la carne delle grasse, e schianterà loro le unghie.

17 Guia al pastore da nulla, che abbandona la greggia; la spada soprasta al suo braccio, ed al suo occhio destro; il suo braccio si seccherà del tutto, ed il suo occhio destro sarà del tutto oscurato.

   


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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2966. 'Four hundred shekels of silver' means the price of redemption, as has been shown above in 2959. But what the price of redemption is will now be stated. Redemption is attributable to the Lord alone, and so also is the price of redemption. Yet the latter may also be spoken of in reference to man's receptivity, though with him the price of redemption is determined by the measure of his receptivity. The price of redemption is the Lord's merit and righteousness acquired through the severest temptations by which He united the Human Essence to the Divine Essence, and the Divine Essence to the Human Essence, doing so by His own power. And through that uniting of them He has saved the human race, especially those who belong to the spiritual Church.

For the Lord's becoming righteousness through the severest temptations, see 1813, 2025-2027.

For the Lord's uniting of the Human Essence to the Divine Essence, and the Divine Essence to the Human Essence, 1725, 1729, 1733, 1737, 1813, 2083.

For His doing this by His own power, 1616, 1921, 2025, 2026, 2083, 2500, 2523, 2632.

And for His salvation of the human race, especially those who belong to the spiritual Church, through that uniting of both, 2661, 2716.

These are the factors meant by the price of redemption.

[2] As regards the consideration that this price may also be spoken of in reference to man's receptivity, though with him that price is determined by the measure of his receptivity, this may be seen from the truth that it is the Lord's Divine which constitutes the Church with man. For the Church does not hearken to anything except that which is the Lord's own. It is the good of love and charity, and the truth of faith, that constitute that which is called the Church. For it is well known that all good comes from the Lord and that all truth comes from the Lord. Good and truth that come from man are not good and truth. From this it is evident that the price of redemption is with man determined by the measure of his receptivity.

[3] Because among the Jews the Lord's redemption was rated so low as to be scarcely anything at all, it is therefore said in Zechariah,

I said to them, If it is good in your eyes, give me my wages; and if not, withhold them. And they weighed out my wages, thirty pieces of silver. And Jehovah said to me, Throw it to the potter, the magnificent price I was valued at among them. Zechariah 11:12-13.

And in Matthew,

They took the thirty pieces of silver, the price set on him whom they had bought from the children of Israel, and gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord commanded me. Matthew 27:9-10.

'Thirty' is that which is so little as to be scarcely anything, see 2276. Thus the meaning is that the Jews rated the Lord's merit and redemption as nothing, but among those who believed that all good and all truth came from the Lord, the price of redemption is meant by 'forty' and to a higher degree by 'four hundred'.

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.