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1 POI egli gridò ad alta voce, udente me, dicendo: Accostatevi voi, che avete commessione contro alla città, avendo ciascuno le sue armi da distruggere in mano.

2 Ed ecco sei uomini, che venivano di verso la porta alta, che riguarda verso il Settentrione, avendo ciascuno in mano le sue armi da dissipare; e nel mezzo di loro vi era un uomo vestito di panni lini, il quale avea un calamaio di scrivano in su i lombi; ed essi entrarono, e si fermarono presso all’altare di rame.

3 E la gloria dell’Iddio d’Israele si elevò d’in su i Cherubini, sopra i quali era; e trasse verso la soglia della Casa. E il Signore gridò all’uomo ch’era vestito di panni lini, che avea il calamaio di scrivano in su i lombi, e gli disse:

4 Passa per mezzo la città, per mezzo Gerusalemme, e fa’ un segno sopra la fronte degli uomini che gemono, e sospirano per tutte le abbominazioni che si commettono nel mezzo di lei.

5 Ed agli altri disse, udente me: Passate dietro a lui per la città, e percotete; il vostro occhio non perdoni, e non risparmiate.

6 Uccidete ad esterminio vecchi, e giovani, e vergini, e piccoli fanciulli, e donne; ma non vi accostate ad alcuno, sopra cui sia il segno; e cominciate dal mio santuario. Essi adunque cominciarono da quegli uomini anziani, ch’erano davanti alla Casa.

7 Ed egli disse loro: Contaminate la Casa, ed empiete d’uccisi i cortili. Poi disse loro: Uscite. Ed essi uscirono, e andavano percotendo per la città.

8 E come essi andavano percotendo, io rimasi quivi solo, e caddi sopra la mia faccia, e gridai, e dissi: Oimè lasso, Signore Iddio! distruggi tu tutto il rimanente d’Israele, spandendo la tua ira sopra Gerusalemme?

9 Ed egli mi rispose: L’iniquità della casa d’Israele, e di Giuda, è oltre modo grande; e il paese è pieno di sangue, e la città è piena di sviamento; perciocchè hanno detto: Il Signore ha abbandonato il paese, e il Signore non vede nulla.

10 Perciò, l’occhio mio non perdonerà, ed io non risparmierò; io renderò loro la lor via in sul capo.

11 Ed ecco, l’uomo ch’era vestito di panni lini, che avea il calamaio sopra i lombi, fece il suo rapporto, dicendo: Io ho fatto secondo che tu mi comandasti.

   


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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Apocalypse Explained #838

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838. To give them a mark on their right hand, or on their foreheads. That this signifies a testification of acknowledgment that they belong to the church, and are in the truths and goods, so called, of that faith, is evident from the signification of a mark, as denoting a sign or witness of acknowledgment, in this case that they belong to that church; and from the signification of the right hand, as denoting the truth of faith in its power (concerning which see above, n. 298); and from the signification of forehead, as denoting the good of love (concerning which see also above, n. 427). In this case, therefore, by the right hand and forehead are signified the truths and goods, so called, of that faith, which, nevertheless, are either not truths and goods, or falsities and evils. The acknowledgment of them, however, as being truths and goods, is signified by giving and receiving a mark upon their right hands and upon their foreheads.

A mark also signifies a sign of acknowledgment in the following passages in the Apocalypse (14:9, 11; 15:2; 16:2; 19:20; 20:4); the meaning of mark is similar to that of

"The sign" set by Jehovah upon Cain (Genesis 4:15).

Also

"The sign" which the prophet was commanded to set upon the foreheads of the men in the city of Jerusalem (Ezekiel 9:4).

As also by "the sign" in Moses:

"Thou shalt love Jehovah thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might; thou shalt bind these words for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes" (Deuteronomy 6:5, 8; 11:18).

  
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Translation by Isaiah Tansley. Many thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.

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Arcana Coelestia #10420

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10420. 'For your people have corrupted themselves' means that they have turned themselves away altogether from the Divine. This is clear from the meaning of 'corrupting themselves', when their worship is the subject, as turning themselves away from the Divine; for all corruption and deviation in worship is a departure and turning away from the Divine. Since the expression 'turning away' is used, what is implied by it must be stated briefly. Those whose interest lies in external things separated from what is internal all turn themselves away from the Divine; for they look in an outward and downward direction, and not in an inward and upward one. For a person looks inwards or upwards when his internal is open, thus when it is in heaven, but he looks outwards or downwards when his internal is closed and only his external is open; for his external is located in the world. Consequently when the external has been separated from the internal the person cannot be raised upwards; for the part on which heaven must act is unavailable, because it has been closed off. This explains why for those people all things of heaven and the Church dwell in thick darkness, as a result of which also they do not believe in the existence of those things. Indeed in their heart they deny the existence of them, some doing so with their lips as well.

[2] When heaven acts on a person, which happens when the internal is open, it leads him away from self-love and love of the world, and from the falsities welling up from them. When the internal is raised, so too is the external; for the viewpoint of the external is similar to that of the internal when it is subordinate to the internal. But when the internal cannot be raised because it is closed, the external looks in no other direction than towards self and the world, since self-love and love of the world reign. This is also called looking downwards because it involves looking towards hell, this being the place where those loves reign; and a person ruled by those loves lives in company with those inhabiting hell, though he is not conscious of doing so. Also inwardly he in actual fact turns himself away from the Lord; for he turns his back on Him and faces towards hell. This cannot be seen within a person while he lives in the body; but since his thought and will are what do this it is his spirit that so turns itself around, the spirit being that which thinks and wills within a person.

[3] It is plainly apparent in the next life that this is so; there spirits turn around as their loves direct them. Those who love the Lord and the neighbour look constantly towards the Lord; indeed, amazingly, they are facing Him whichever way they turn their body. For in the spiritual world no direction or quarter exists as in the natural world. The direction that anyone in the spiritual world faces is determined by his love causing him to turn around. But those who love themselves and the world above all things turn their face away from the Lord and turn themselves towards hell. And there each one turns towards those ruled by a love similar to his, and this too is so whichever way they turn their body. From this it becomes clear what turning oneself away from the Divine describes, and also what precisely is meant in the Word by 'turning oneself away', as in Isaiah,

They turn themselves away backwards, those trusting in a graven image. Isaiah 42:17.

In David,

[Our] heart does [not] turn itself away backwards. Psalms 44:18.

In Jeremiah,

Their transgressions have been multiplied, and their turnings away have become firm. Jeremiah 5:6.

In the same prophet,

They turn themselves away, in order that they may not return. This people turn themselves away; Jerusalem is perpetually turned away, they refuse to return. Jeremiah 8:4-5.

In the same prophet,

They have turned themselves away, they have taken themselves away to dwell in the deep. Jeremiah 49:8.

And the expression is used many times elsewhere.

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