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Genesi 22

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1 DOPO queste cose, avvenne che Iddio provò Abrahamo, e gli disse: Abrahamo. Ed egli disse: Eccomi.

2 E Iddio gli disse: Prendi ora il tuo figliuolo, il tuo unico, il qual tu ami, cioè, Isacco; e vattene nella contrada di Moria, ed offeriscilo quivi in olocausto, sopra l’uno di que’ monti, il quale io ti dirò.

3 Abrahamo adunque, levatosi la mattina a buon’ora, mise il basto al suo asino, e prese due suoi servitori seco, ed Isacco, suo figliuolo; e schiappate delle legne per l’olocausto, si levò, e se ne andò al luogo il quale Iddio gli avea detto.

4 Al terzo giorno, Abrahamo alzò gli occhi, e vide quel luogo di lontano.

5 E disse a’ suoi servitori: Restate qui con l’asino; ed io e il fanciullo andremo fin colà, ed adoreremo; poi ritorneremo a voi.

6 Ed Abrahamo prese le legne per l’olocausto, e le mise addosso ad Isacco, suo figliuolo; e prese in mano il fuoco e il coltello; e se ne andarono amendue insieme.

7 Ed Isacco disse ad Abrahamo suo padre: padre mio. Ed egli rispose: Eccomi, figliuol mio. Ed Isacco disse: Ecco il fuoco e le legne; ma dove è l’agnello per l’olocausto?

8 Ed Abrahamo disse: Figliuol mio, Iddio si provvederà d’agnello per l’olocausto. Ed essi se ne andarono amendue insieme.

9 E giunsero al luogo il quale Iddio avea detto ad Abrahamo; ed egli edificò quivi un altare, ed ordinò le legne; e legò Isacco suo figliuolo, e lo mise su l’altare disopra alle legne.

10 Ed Abrahamo stese la mano, e prese il coltello per iscannare il suo figliuolo.

11 Ma l’Angelo del Signore gli gridò dal cielo, e disse: Abrahamo, Abrahamo. Ed egli disse: Eccomi.

12 E l’Angelo gli disse: Non metter la mano addosso al fanciullo, e non fargli nulla; perciocchè ora conosco che tu temi Iddio, poichè tu non mi hai dinegato il tuo figliuolo, il tuo unico.

13 Ed Abrahamo alzò gli occhi, e riguardò; ed ecco un montone dietro a lui, rattenuto per le corna ad un cespuglio. Ed Abrahamo andò, e prese quel montone, e l’offerse in olocausto, in luogo del suo figliuolo.

14 Ed Abrahamo nominò quel luogo: Il Signor provvederà. Che è quel che oggi si dice: Nel monte del Signore sarà provveduto.

15 E l’Angelo del Signore gridò ad Abrahamo dal cielo, la secondo volta.

16 E disse: Io giuro per me stesso, dice il Signore, che, poichè tu hai fatto questo e non mi hai dinegato il tuo figliuolo, il tuo unico;

17 io del tutto ti benedirò, e farò moltiplicar grandemente la tua progenie, tal che sarà come le stelle del cielo, e come la rena che è in sul lido del mare; e la tua progenie possederà la porta de’ suoi nemici.

18 E tutte le nazioni della terra saranno benedette nella tua progenie; perciocchè tu hai ubbidito alla mia voce.

19 Poi Abrahamo se ne ritornò a’ suoi servitori. E si levarono, e se ne andarono insieme in Beerseba, ove Abrahamo dimorava.

20 E DOPO queste cose, fu rapportato ad Abrahamo: Ecco, Milca ha anch’essa partoriti figliuoli a Nahor, tuo fratello.

21 Questi furono: Us primogenito di esso, e Buz suo fratello, e Chemuel padre di Aram,

22 e Chesed, ed Hazo, e Pildas, ed Idlaf, e Betuel. Or Betuel generò Rebecca.

23 Milca partorì questi otto a Nahor fratello di Abrahamo.

24 E la concubina di esso, il cui nome era Reuma, partorì anch’essa Tebach, e Gaham, e Tahas, e Maaca.

   


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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2776. And offer him there for a burnt-offering. That this signifies that He should sanctify Himself to the Divine, is evident from the representation of a burnt-offering among the Hebrew nation and in the Jewish church, as being the most holy thing of their worship. There were burnt-offerings and there were sacrifices, and what these represented may be seen above (n. 922, 923, 1823, 2180). Their sanctifications were made by means of them, and hence it is that by “offering up for a burnt-offering” is here signified to be sanctified to the Divine, for the Lord Himself sanctified Himself to the Divine, that is, united His Human to His Divine by the combats and victories of temptations (see n. 1663, 1690, 1691 at the end, 1692, 1737, 1787, 1812, 1813, 1820).

[2] It is a common belief at this day that the burnt-offerings and sacrifices signified the Lord’s passion, and that by this the Lord made expiation for the iniquities of all; indeed, that He took them upon Himself, and thus bore them; and that those who believe are in this manner justified and saved, provided they think, even though it were in the last hour before death, that the Lord suffered for them, no matter how they may have lived during the whole course of their life.

But the case is not really so: the passion of the cross was the extremity of the Lord’s temptation, by which He fully united His Human to His Divine and His Divine to His Human, and thus glorified Himself. This very union is the means by which those who have the faith in Him which is the faith of charity, can be saved. For the supreme Divine Itself could no longer reach to the human race, which had removed itself so far from the celestial things of love and the spiritual things of faith, that men no longer even acknowledged them, and still less perceived them. In order therefore that the supreme Divine might be able to come down to man in such a state, the Lord came into the world and united His Human to the Divine in Himself; which union could not be effected otherwise than by the most grievous combats of temptations and by victories, and at length by the last, which was that of the cross.

[3] Hence it is that the Lord can from His Divine Human illumine minds, even those far removed from the celestial things of love, provided they are in the faith of charity. For the Lord in the other life appears to the celestial angels as a Sun, and to the spiritual as a Moon (n. 1053, 1521, 1529, 1530, 2441, 2495), whence comes all the light of heaven. This light of heaven is of such a nature that when it illumines the sight of spirits and angels, it also illumines their understanding at the same time.

This is inherent in that light, so that in heaven so much as anyone has of external light, so much has he of internal light, that is, so much of understanding; which shows wherein the light of heaven differs from the light of the world. It is the Lord’s Divine Human which illuminates both the sight and the understanding of the spiritual; which would not take place if the Lord had not united His Human Essence to His Divine Essence; and if He had not united them, man in the world would no longer have had any capacity of understanding and perceiving what is good and true, nor indeed would a spiritual angel in heaven have had any; so that they would have had nothing of blessedness and happiness, consequently nothing of salvation. From this we can see that the human race could not have been saved unless the Lord had assumed the Human and glorified it.

[4] Hence then anyone may infer what truth there is in the idea that men are saved if they only think from a kind of interior emotion that the Lord suffered for them, and took away their sins, however they may have lived; whereas the light of heaven from the Lord’s Divine Human cannot reach to any but those who live in the good of faith, that is, in charity; or what is the same, those who have conscience. The very plane into which that light can operate, or the receptacle of that light, is the good of faith, or charity, and thus conscience. (That the spiritual have salvation from the Lord’s Divine Human, may be seen above, n. 1043, 2661, 2716, 2718)

  
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