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Genesi 19

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1 OR que’ due Angeli giunsero in Sodoma, in su la sera; e Lot sedeva alla porta di Sodoma; e come egli li vide, si levò per andar loro incontro, e s’inchinò verso terra.

2 E disse: Or su, signori miei, io vi prego, riducetevi in casa del vostro servitore, e statevi questa notte ad albergo, e vi lavate i piedi: poi domattina voi vi leverete, e ve ne andrete al vostro cammino. Ed essi dissero: No; anzi noi staremo questa notte in su la piazza.

3 Ma egli fece loro gran forza, tanto che essi si ridussero appo lui, ed entrarono in casa sua. Ed egli fece loro un convito, e cosse de’ pani azzimi, ed essi mangiarono.

4 Avanti che si fossero posti a giacere, gli uomini della città di Sodoma intorniarono la casa, giovani e vecchi, tutto il popolo, fin dalle estremità della città.

5 E chiamarono Lot, e gli dissero: Ove son quegli uomini che son venuti a te questa notte? menaceli fuori, acciocchè noi li conosciamo.

6 E Lot uscì fuori a loro, in su la porta, e si serrò l’uscio dietro.

7 E disse: Deh! fratelli miei, non fate male.

8 Ecco, ora io ho due figliuole che non hanno conosciuto uomo; deh! lasciate che io ve le meni fuori, e fate loro come vi piacerà; solo non fate nulla a questi uomini; perciocchè per questo son venuti all’ombra del mio coperto.

9 Ma essi gli dissero: Fatti in là. Poi dissero: Quest’uno è venuto qua per dimorarvi come straniere, e pur fa il giudice! Ora noi faremo peggio a te che a loro. Fecero adunque gran forza a quell’uomo Lot, e si accostarono per romper l’uscio.

10 E quegli uomini stesero le mani, e ritrassero Lot a loro, dentro alla casa; poi serrarono l’uscio.

11 E percossero d’abbarbaglio gli uomini ch’erano alla porta della casa, dal minore al maggiore; onde essi si stancarono, per trovar la porta.

12 E quegli uomini dissero a Lot: Chi de’ tuoi è ancora qui? fa’ uscir di questo luogo generi, figliuoli e figliuole, e chiunque è de’ tuoi in questa città.

13 Perciocchè noi di presente distruggeremo questo luogo; perchè il grido loro è grande nel cospetto del Signore; e il Signore ci ha mandati per distruggerlo.

14 Lot adunque uscì fuori, e parlò a’ suoi generi, che doveano prender le sue figliole, e disse loro: Levatevi, uscite di questo luogo; perciocchè il Signore di presente distruggerà questa città. Ma parve loro ch’egli si facesse beffe.

15 E, come l’alba cominciò ad apparire, gli Angeli sollecitarono Lot, dicendo: Levati, prendi la tua moglie, e le tue due figliuole che qui si ritrovano; che talora tu non perisca nell’iniquità della città.

16 Ed egli s’indugiava; ma quegli uomini presero lui, la sua moglie e le sue due figliuole, per la mano perciocchè il Signore voleva risparmiarlo, e lo fecero uscire, e lo misero fuor della città.

17 E quando li ebber fatti uscir fuori, il Signore disse: Scampa sopra l’anima tua; non riguardare indietro, e non fermarti in tutta la pianura; scampa verso il monte, che talora tu non perisca.

18 E Lot disse loro: Deh! no, Signore.

19 Ecco, ora il tuo servitore ha trovato grazia appo te, e tu hai usata gran benignità in ciò che hai fatto verso me, conservando in vita la mia persona; ma io non potrò scampar verso il monte, che il male non mi giunga, onde io morrò.

20 Deh! ecco, questa città è vicina, per rifuggirmici, ed è poca cosa; deh! lascia che io mi salvi là non è ella poca cosa?, e la mia persona resterà in vita.

21 Ed egli gli disse: Ecco, io ti ho esaudito eziandio in questa cosa, per non sovvertir quella città, della quale tu hai parlato.

22 Affrettati, scampa là; perciocchè io non potrò far nulla fin che tu non vi sii arrivato. Perciò quella città è stata nominata Soar.

23 Il sole si levava in su la terra, quando Lot arrivò a Soar.

24 E il Signore fece piover dal cielo sopra Sodoma e sopra Gomorra, solfo e fuoco, dal Signore.

25 E sovvertì quelle città e tutta la pianura, e tutti gli abitanti di esse città, e le piante della terra.

26 Or la moglie di Lot riguardò di dietro a lui, e divenne una statua di sale.

27 Ed Abrahamo levatosi la mattina a buon’ora, andò al luogo ove si era fermato davanti al Signore.

28 E, riguardando verso Sodoma e Gomorra e verso tutto il paese della pianura, vide che dalla terra saliva un fumo simile ad un fumo di fornace.

29 Così avvenne che, quando Iddio distrusse le città della pianura, egli si ricordò di Abrahamo, e mandò Lot fuori di mezzo la sovversione, mentre egli sovvertiva le città nelle quali Lot era dimorato.

30 POI Lot salì di Soar, e dimorò sul monte, insieme con le sue due figliuole perciocchè egli temeva di dimorare in Soar, e dimorò in una spelonca, egli e le sue due figliuole.

31 E la maggiore disse alla minore: Nostro padre è vecchio, e non vi è più uomo alcuno sulla terra ch’entri da noi, secondo l’usanza di tutta la terra.

32 Vieni, diam da bere del vino a nostro padre, e giaciamoci con lui; e così di nostro padre conserveremo in vita alcuna progenie.

33 Quell’istessa notte adunque diedero a ber del vino al loro padre; e la maggiore venne, e si giacque con suo padre, il quale non si avvide nè quando ella si pose a giacere, nè quando si levò.

34 E il giorno seguente, la maggiore disse alla minore: Ecco, la notte passata io son giaciuta con mio padre; diamogli a ber del vino ancora questa notte; poi va’, e giaciti con lui; così di nostro padre conserveremo in vita alcuna progenie.

35 Quella notte adunque diedero ancora a ber del vino al padre loro, e la minore si levò, e si giacque con lui; ed egli non si avvide nè quando ella si pose a giacere, nè quando si levò.

36 E le due figliuole di Lot concepettero di lor padre.

37 E la maggiore partorì un figliuolo, al quale pose nome Moab. Esso è il padre de’ Moabiti, che son fino ad oggi.

38 E la minore partorì anch’essa un figliuolo, al quale pose nome Ben-ammi. Esso è il padre degli Ammoniti, che son fino ad oggi.

   


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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2441. The sun was gone forth upon the earth. That this signifies the last period, which is called the Last Judgment, is evident from the signification of the “rising of the sun,” when the subject treated of is the times and states of the church. That in the internal sense the times of the day, and also the times of the year, signify the successive states of the church, has been shown before (n. 2323); and that the dawn or morning signifies the Lord’s advent, that is, the approach of His Kingdom (n. 2405) so that in the passage before us the rising of the sun, that is, his “going forth upon the earth,” signifies the Lord’s presence itself; and this for the reason that both the “sun” and the “east” signify the Lord. (As to the “sun,” seen. 31, 32, 1053, 1521, 1529-1531, 2120; as to the “east,” n. 101.)

[2] The reason why the Lord’s presence is the same as the last period, which is called the Judgment, is that His presence separates the good from the evil, and results in the good being elevated into heaven, and the evil casting themselves down into hell; for in the other life the Lord is the Sun to the universal heaven (see n. 1053, 1521, 1529-1531), for it is the Divine Celestial of His love that so appears before their eyes and actually makes the very light of heaven. In so far therefore as the inhabitants of the spiritual world are in celestial love, so far are they elevated into that celestial light which is from the Lord; but in so far as they are remote from celestial love, so far do they cast themselves away from this light into infernal darkness.

[3] This therefore is the reason why the “rising of the sun,” by which is signified the presence of the Lord, involves both the salvation of the good and the damnation of the evil; and this is why it is now said for the first time that “Lot came to Zoar,” that is, that they who are here represented by Lot were saved; and presently that “Jehovah caused it to rain upon Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire,” that is, that the evil were damned.

[4] To those who are in the evils of the love of self and of the world, that is, to those who are in hatreds against all things of love to the Lord and of charity toward the neighbor, the light of heaven actually appears as thick darkness; on which account it is said in the Word that to such the “sun was blackened;” by which is signified that they rejected everything of love and charity, and received everything that is contrary thereto. As in Ezekiel:

When I shall extinguish thee, I will cover the heavens, and make the stars thereof black; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not make her light to shine; all the luminaries of light in the heavens will I make black over thee, and will set darkness upon thy land (Ezekiel 31:7, 8).

Every one can see that by “covering the heavens,” “blackening the stars,” “covering the sun,” and “blackening the luminaries of heaven,” other things than these are signified.

[5] In like manner in Isaiah:

The sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine (Isaiah 13:10).

And in Joel:

The sun and the moon are blackened, and the stars withdraw their shining (Joel 2:2, 10).

It is therefore evident what is signified by the Lord’s words in Matthew, where He is speaking of the last period of the church, which is called the Judgment:

Immediately after the affliction of those days, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven (Matthew 24:29)

where by the “sun” is not meant the sun; nor by the “moon,” the moon; nor by the “stars,” the stars; but by the “sun” are signified love and charity; by the “moon,” the faith thence derived; and by the “stars,” the knowledges of good and truth; which are said to be “obscured,” to “lose their light,” and to “fall from heaven,” when there is no longer any acknowledgment of the Lord, nor any love to Him, nor any charity toward the neighbor; and when these have become nought, the love of self with its falsities takes possession of the man; for the one thing is a consequence of the other.

[6] Hence we read also in John:

The fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and it was given unto him to scorch men with fire, and men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God (Revelation 16:8-9)

where also the last times of the church are treated of, when all love and charity are being extinguished; or, speaking according to the common mode, when there is no longer any faith. The extinction of love and charity is meant by the “pouring out of the vial upon the sun;” so that it was the love of self and its cupidities by which men were then “scorched with fire,” and “scorched with great heat;” and from which came the “blaspheming of the name of God.”

[7] By the “sun” the Ancient Church understood nothing else than the Lord and the Divine Celestial of His love; and therefore they were accustomed to pray toward the sun rising, while not thinking at all about the sun. But after their posterity had lost this also, together with the rest of their representatives and significatives, they began to worship the sun itself and also the moon; which worship spread to many nations, so much so that they dedicated temples to them, and set up pillars; and because the sun and the moon then took on an opposite signification, they came to signify the love of self and of the world, which are diametrically contrary to heavenly and spiritual love. Hence in the Word by the “worship of the sun and the moon” is meant the worship of self and of the world.

[8] As in Moses:

Lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the army of the heavens, and thou be driven to bow down unto them, and serve them (Deuteronomy 4:19).

And again:

If he have gone and served other gods, and the sun and the moon, or any of the army of the heavens, which I have not commanded, then thou shalt stone them with stones, and they shall die (Deuteronomy 17:3, 5). (Deuteronomy 17:6)

Into such idolatry was the ancient worship turned when they no longer believed that anything internal was signified by the rites of the church, but only what was external.

[9] In like manner in Jeremiah:

At that time shall they spread out the bones of the kings of Judah, of the princes, of the priests, of the prophets, and of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, before the sun and the moon, and all the army of the heavens, which they have loved, and which they have served (Jeremiah 8:1-2).

The “sun” here denotes the love of self and its cupidities; their “spreading out the bones” signifies the infernal things that belong to such worshipers.

Again:

He shall break the pillars of the house of the sun, which are in the land of Egypt, and the houses of the gods of Egypt shall he burn with fire (Jeremiah 43:13).

The “pillars of the house” denote the worship of self.

  
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Joel 2

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1 Blow the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of Yahweh comes, for it is close at hand:

2 A day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness. As the dawn spreading on the mountains, a great and strong people; there has never been the like, neither will there be any more after them, even to the years of many generations.

3 A fire devours before them, and behind them, a flame burns. The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them, a desolate wilderness. Yes, and no one has escaped them.

4 The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses, and as horsemen, so do they run.

5 Like the noise of chariots on the tops of the mountains do they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devours the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.

6 At their presence the peoples are in anguish. All faces have grown pale.

7 They run like mighty men. They climb the wall like warriors. They each march in his line, and they don't swerve off course.

8 Neither does one jostle another; they march everyone in his path, and they burst through the defenses, and don't break ranks.

9 They rush on the city. They run on the wall. They climb up into the houses. They enter in at the windows like thieves.

10 The earth quakes before them. The heavens tremble. The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.

11 Yahweh thunders his voice before his army; for his forces are very great; for he is strong who obeys his command; for the day of Yahweh is great and very awesome, and who can endure it?

12 "Yet even now," says Yahweh, "turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning."

13 Tear your heart, and not your garments, and turn to Yahweh, your God; for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and relents from sending calamity.

14 Who knows? He may turn and relent, and leave a blessing behind him, even a meal offering and a drink offering to Yahweh, your God.

15 Blow the trumpet in Zion! Sanctify a fast. Call a solemn assembly.

16 Gather the people. Sanctify the assembly. Assemble the elders. Gather the children, and those who nurse from breasts. Let the bridegroom go forth from his room, and the bride out of her room.

17 Let the priests, the ministers of Yahweh, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, "Spare your people, Yahweh, and don't give your heritage to reproach, that the nations should rule over them. Why should they say among the peoples, 'Where is their God?'"

18 Then Yahweh was jealous for his land, And had pity on his people.

19 Yahweh answered his people, "Behold, I will send you grain, new wine, and oil, and you will be satisfied with them; and I will no more make you a reproach among the nations.

20 But I will remove the northern army far away from you, and will drive it into a barren and desolate land, its front into the eastern sea, and its back into the western sea; and its stench will come up, and its bad smell will rise." Surely he has done great things.

21 Land, don't be afraid. Be glad and rejoice, for Yahweh has done great things.

22 Don't be afraid, you animals of the field; for the pastures of the wilderness spring up, for the tree bears its fruit. The fig tree and the vine yield their strength.

23 "Be glad then, you children of Zion, and rejoice in Yahweh, your God; for he gives you the former rain in just measure, and he causes the rain to come down for you, the former rain and the latter rain, as before.

24 The threshing floors will be full of wheat, and the vats will overflow with new wine and oil.

25 I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the great locust, the grasshopper, and the caterpillar, my great army, which I sent among you.

26 You will have plenty to eat, and be satisfied, and will praise the name of Yahweh, your God, who has dealt wondrously with you; and my people will never again be disappointed.

27 You will know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am Yahweh, your God, and there is no one else; and my people will never again be disappointed.

28 "It will happen afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your old men will dream dreams. Your young men will see visions.

29 And also on the servants and on the handmaids in those days, I will pour out my Spirit.

30 I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth: blood, fire, and pillars of smoke.

31 The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes.

32 It will happen that whoever will call on the name of Yahweh shall be saved; for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be those who escape, as Yahweh has said, and among the remnant, those whom Yahweh calls.