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Geremia 24

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1 L’Eterno mi fece vedere due canestri di fichi, posti davanti al tempio dell’Eterno, dopo che Nebucadnetsar, re di Babilonia, ebbe menato via da Gerusalemme e trasportato in cattività a Babilonia Jeconia, figliuolo di Joiakim, re di Giuda, i capi di Giuda, i falegnami e i fabbri.

2 Uno de’ canestri conteneva de’ fichi molto buoni, come sono i fichi primaticci; e l’altro canestro conteneva de’ fichi molto cattivi, che non si potevano mangiare, tanto eran cattivi.

3 E l’Eterno mi disse: "Che vedi, Geremia?" Io risposi: "De’ fichi; quelli buoni, molto buoni, e quelli cattivi, molto cattivi, da non potersi mangiare, tanto sono cattivi".

4 E la parola dell’Eterno mi fu rivolta in questi termini:

5 "Così parla l’Eterno, l’Iddio d’Israele: Quali sono questi fichi buoni, tali saranno que’ di Giuda che ho mandati da questo luogo in cattività nel paese de’ Caldei; io li riguarderò con favore;

6 l’occhio mio si poserà con favore su loro; e li ricondurrò in questo paese; li stabilirò fermamente, e non li distruggerò più; li pianterò, e non li sradicherò più.

7 E darò loro un cuore, per conoscer me che sono l’Eterno; saranno mio popolo, e io sarò loro Dio, perché si convertiranno a me con tutto il loro cuore.

8 E come si trattano questi fichi cattivi che non si posson mangiare, tanto son cattivi, così, dice l’Eterno, io tratterò Sedekia, re di Giuda, e i suoi principi, e il residuo di que’ di Gerusalemme, quelli che son rimasti in questo paese e quelli che abitano nel paese d’Egitto;

9 e farò sì che saranno agitati e maltrattati per tutti i regni della terra; che diventeranno oggetto d’obbrobrio, di proverbio, di sarcasmo e di maledizione in tutti i luoghi dove li caccerò.

10 E manderò contro di loro la spada, la fame, la peste, finché siano scomparsi dal suolo che avevo dato a loro e ai loro padri.

   

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Apocalypse Explained # 404

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404. Verse 14. And the heaven departed as a book rolled up, signifies that the spiritual man became closed up. This is evident from the signification of "heaven," as being the church in general and in particular; for the church is the heaven of the Lord on the earth; moreover, the church makes one with heaven by conjunction; therefore when "heaven and earth" are mentioned in the Word, the church internal and external is meant, for the internal of the men of the church is heaven with them, and their external is the world with them; and as "heaven and earth" signify the church internal and external so they signify the internal and external man, or the spiritual and the natural man; for as man in whom is the good of love and of faith is a church, so the church, in general exists from the men in whom the church is. This makes clear why it is that "heaven" here means the internal or spiritual man. It is said "the spiritual man," by which is meant the spiritual mind, which is the higher or interior mind of man, while the lower or exterior mind is called the natural man. The above is evident also from the signification of "departed as a book rolled up," as meaning that it became closed up; for the spiritual mind, which is, as was said, the higher or interior mind with man, is opened by truths applied to life, thus by goods, but it is closed up by falsities applied to life, thus by evils; and the closing up is as the rolling up of the scroll of a book. That this is so was made very clear by the appearances in the spiritual world when the Last Judgment was accomplished; for the mountains and the hills there then appeared sometimes to be rolled up as the scroll of a book is rolled up, and those that were upon them were then rolled down into hell. The cause of this appearance was this: that the interiors of their minds, through which somewhat of light from heaven had before flowed in, were then closed up. What takes place in general with many, takes place with everyone in particular of a like character, for in the spiritual world such as the general is, such is the particular (See in the work on Heaven and Hell 73). By "book" is meant a scroll, because in ancient times there were no types and thus no books like those at the present day, but there were scrolls of parchments; so "books" in Revelation mean scrolls, and "heaven departed as a book rolled up" means as a scroll rolled up; the same as in Isaiah:

All the host of the heavens shall waste away, and the heavens shall be rolled up as a book (Isaiah 34:4).

  
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Matthew 7

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1 "Don't judge, so that you won't be judged.

2 For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you.

3 Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but don't consider the beam that is in your own eye?

4 Or how will you tell your brother, 'Let me remove the speck from your eye;' and behold, the beam is in your own eye?

5 You hypocrite! First remove the beam out of your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck out of your brother's eye.

6 "Don't give that which is holy to the dogs, neither throw your pearls before the pigs, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.

7 "Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.

8 For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.

9 Or who is there among you, who, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone?

10 Or if he asks for a fish, who will give him a serpent?

11 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

12 Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

13 "Enter in by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many are those who Enter in by it.

14 How narrow is the gate, and restricted is the way that leads to life! Few are those who find it.

15 "Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves.

16 By their fruits you will know them. Do you gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles?

17 Even so, every good tree produces good fruit; but the corrupt tree produces evil fruit.

18 A good tree can't produce evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree produce good fruit.

19 Every tree that doesn't grow good fruit is cut down, and thrown into the fire.

20 Therefore, by their fruits you will know them.

21 Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in Heaven.

22 Many will tell me in that day, 'Lord, Lord, didn't we prophesy in your name, in your name cast out demons, and in your name do many mighty works?'

23 Then I will tell them, 'I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.'

24 "Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock.

25 The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it didn't fall, for it was founded on the rock.

26 Everyone who hears these words of mine, and doesn't do them will be like a foolish man, who built his house on the sand.

27 The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it fell--and great was its fall."

28 It happened, when Jesus had finished saying these things, that the multitudes were astonished at his teaching,

29 for he taught them with authority, and not like the scribes.