Ezechiele 23:15
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.
The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms #146
146. Internal Meaning of Ezekiel, Chapter 23
The church which is in truth, and the church which is in good. (2)
1-2 There are two churches, one which is in truth, which is Samaria, and the other which is in good, which is Jerusalem. (2)
3 Both are external natural, perverted in the beginning. (2)
5-8 Samaria falsified the truths of the Word by reasonings from knowledges [scientifica];, (2, 3)
9-10 thus she became corrupted. (2, 3)
11-13 Jerusalem likewise falsified truths, (2, 3)
14-17 and adulterated goods also by various means. (2, 3)
18 Thereby she separated herself from the Lord, (2)
19 and defiled truths and goods still further by knowledges [scientifica] of the natural man. (2)
22-25 They will wholly perish on the day of judgment. (15)
26-27 Thus the truths and goods of the church will no longer be perverted. (15)
28-31 They will be in hell where there is nothing but evils and falsities. (15)
32-34 They will also be in the falsification of all truth; (15)
35 and this, because they have denied the Lord. (4)
36-39 They have destroyed all the holy things of the church. (3)
40-42 They boasted before others because of their having the Word and the holy things of the church, (3)
43-45 although these were entirely falsified and adulterated. (3)
46-49 Falsities and evils will destroy all things of the church among them, and such must be separated that they may no longer mislead. (3, 11)
Ezekiel 23:14-17
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And that she increased her whoredoms: for when she saw men pourtrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion,
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Girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity:
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And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she doted upon them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea.
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And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoredom, and she was polluted with them, and her mind was alienated from them.
