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Deuteronomio 6

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1 OR questi sono i comandamenti, gli statuti e le leggi, che il Signore Iddio vostro mi ha comandato di insegnarvi, acciocchè le mettiate in opera, nel paese al quale voi passate per possederlo;

2 acciocchè tu tema il Signore Iddio tuo, osservando tutti i suoi statuti e comandamenti, i quali io ti do; tu, e il tuo figliuolo, e il figliuolo del tuo figliuolo, tutto il tempo della tua vita; e acciocchè i tuoi giorni sieno prolungati.

3 Ascolta adunque o Israele, e osserva di metterli in opera, acciocchè ti sia bene, e acciocchè siate grandemente moltiplicati, nel paese stillante latte e miele, come il Signore Iddio dei tuoi padri ti ha detto.

4 Ascolta, Israele: Il Signore Iddio nostro è l’unico Signore;

5 Ama dunque il Signore Iddio tuo con tutto il tuo cuore, con tutta l’anima tua, e con tutto il tuo maggior potere.

6 E dimorino queste parole, le quali oggi ti comando, nel tuo cuore;

7 e inculcale a’ tuoi figliuoli, e ragionane quando tu sarai a sedere in casa tua, e quando tu camminerai per via, e quando tu giacerai, e quando tu ti leverai.

8 E legale per segnale, in su la tua mano, e sieno per frontali fra’ tuoi occhi.

9 Scrivile ancora sopra gli stipiti della tua casa, e sopra le tue porte.

10 E quando il Signore Iddio tuo ti avrà introdotto nel paese, del quale egli ha giurato a’ tuoi padri, ad Abrahamo, a Isacco, e a Giacobbe, ch’egli te lo darebbe, nelle città grandi e belle, le quali tu non hai edificate;

11 e nelle case piene d’ogni bene, le quali tu non hai empiute; e a’ pozzi cavati, che tu non hai cavati; e alle vigne, e agli uliveti, che tu non hai piantati; e tu avrai mangiato, e sarai sazio;

12 guardati che talora tu non dimentichi il Signore, che ti ha tratto fuor del paese di Egitto, della casa di servitù.

13 Temi il Signore Iddio tuo, e a lui servi,

14 e giura per lo suo Nome. Non andate dietro agl’iddii stranieri, d’infra gl’iddii de’ popoli che saranno d’intorno a voi;

15 perciocchè il Signore Iddio tuo è un Dio geloso nel mezzo di te; che talora l’ira del Signore Iddio tuo non si accenda contro a te, e ch’egli non ti distrugga d’in su la terra.

16 Non tentate il Signore Iddio vostro, come voi lo tentaste in Massa.

17 Del tutto osservate i comandamenti del Signore Iddio vostro, e le sue testimonianze, e i suoi statuti ch’egli vi ha dati.

18 E fa’ ciò che è diritto e buono negli occhi del Signore; acciocchè ti sia bene, e che tu entri nel buon paese, il quale il Signore ha giurato a’ tuoi padri; e che tu lo possegga.

19 Acciocchè egli cacci d’innanzi a te tutti i tuoi nemici; come il Signore ne ha parlato.

20 Quando il tuo figliuolo per l’innanzi ti domanderà, dicendo: Che voglion dire queste testimonianze, e questi statuti, e queste leggi, che il Signore Iddio nostro vi ha date?

21 Di’ al tuo figliuolo: Noi eravamo servi di Faraone in Egitto; e il Signore ci trasse fuor di Egitto con potente mano.

22 E il Signore fece miracoli, e prodigi grandi e dannosi sopra gli Egizj, e sopra Faraone, e sopra tutta la sua casa, davanti agli occhi nostri.

23 E ci trasse fuor di là, per condurci nel paese il quale egli avea giurato a’ nostri padri, e per darcelo.

24 E il Signore ci comandò di mettere in opera tutti questi statuti, per temere il Signore Iddio nostro, acciocchè ci sia bene in perpetuo, e siamo conservati in vita, come siamo oggi.

25 E ciò ci sarà giustizia, quando noi osserveremo di mettere in opera tutti questi comandamenti, nel cospetto del Signore Iddio nostro, siccome egli ci ha comandato.

   


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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Arcana Coelestia # 8286

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8286. 'And with the wind of Your nostrils the waters were heaped up' means falsities gathered together through heaven's presence. This is clear from the meaning of 'the wind of Your nostrils' as heaven, dealt with below; from the meaning of 'being heaped up' as being gathered into one; and from the meaning of 'the waters' as falsities, dealt with in 7307, 8137, 8138. Damnation and being cast into hell involves having all the falsities arising from evil gathered together, and then being hemmed in by them, see 8146, 8210, 8232; and this happens as a result simply of the Lord's presence, 8265. The reason why 'the wind of Jehovah's, or the Lord's, nostrils' means heaven is that the expression is used to denote the breath of life, that is, God's life; and since God's life constitutes heaven's life, heaven is meant by 'the wind of Jehovah's nostrils'. This also explains why the same word in the original language means both wind and spirit.

[2] The fact that Jehovah's wind or His breath means heaven's life, and the life of a person in heaven, that is, of one who has been regenerated, is clear in David,

By the Word of Jehovah were the heavens made, and all their host by the spirit (wind) of His mouth. Psalms 33:6.

In the same author,

You gather up their spirit, they breathe their last and fall back into their dust. You send forth Your spirit (wind), they are created. Psalms 104:29-30.

In Ezekiel,

Jehovah said to me, Will these bones live? Then He said, Prophesy over the spirit, prophesy, O son of man, and say to the wind, Thus said the Lord Jehovih, Come from the four winds, O spirit, and breathe into these killed, that they may live. And the spirit came into them, and they lived again. Ezekiel 37:3, 9-10.

In John,

I saw four angels standing over the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth, in order that the wind should not blow onto the earth, nor onto the sea, nor onto any tree. Revelation 7:1.

Here 'the wind' stands for heaven's life, which is God's life, as also in Job,

The spirit of God has made me, and the breath of Shaddai 1 has given me life. Job 33:4.

[3] Since 'wind' meant life the Lord also says, in His teaching about a person's regeneration,

The spirit (or wind) blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from or goes away to; so it is with everyone who has been born from the spirit. John 3:8.

And since life from God was meant by 'Jehovah's wind' or 'His breath' it therefore says of Jehovah, when Adam's new life is the subject, that

He breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. Genesis 2:7.

The word 'nostrils' is used because a person breathes by means of them and by means of breathing has life, as in Isaiah,

Turn yourselves away from the person in whose nostrils there is breath. 2 Isaiah 2:22.

In Jeremiah,

The Breath 3 Lamentations 4:20Job 27:3.

[4] Since therefore 'the wind of Jehovah's nostrils' means life which comes from the Lord, and so in the universal sense means heaven, and since through the Lord's presence - or through the presence of heaven, where the Lord is - evils and falsities are cast into hell, 8265, so also is the accomplishment of this meant by 'the wind of Jehovah's nostrils', as in David,

The channels of the sea were seen, the foundations of the world were revealed, because of Jehovah's rebuke, at the blast of breath from His nostrils. 4 Psalms 18:8, 15; 2 Samuel 22:16. 5

In Isaiah,

The breath of Jehovah like a stream 6 of brimstone sets it alight. Isaiah 30:33.

In the same prophet,

Indeed they are not planted, indeed they are not sown, indeed their trunk does not take root in the earth, and also He breathes onto them and they wither, so that the whirlwind may bear them away like stubble. Isaiah 40:24Psalms 147:1718

In addition this explains why 'the nose', when used in reference to Jehovah or the Lord, also means wrath, and so the punishment, vastation, and damnation suffered by those ruled by evils and falsities, as in Numbers 25:4; Deuteronomy 7:4; Judges 2:14; Isaiah 9:12; Jeremiah 4:8Hosea 14:4; Psalms 6:1; 86:15; 103:8; 145:8; and very many other times elsewhere. It explains too why 'breathing with the nostrils' or 'breathing out' means being angry, Deuteronomy 4:21; Isaiah 12:1; Psalms 2:12; 6:1; 60:1; 79:5; 85:5.

  
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Arcana Coelestia # 8232

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8232. 'Not so much as one of them remained' means every single one. This is clear without explanation.

The subject in this verse has been the plunging or casting into hell of those who were steeped in falsities arising from evil. But few know what being plunged and cast into hell may be. They imagine that it is being cast down into some place where the devil and his crew are, and that these torment people there. But that is not the situation. When people there are cast into hell, it is nothing other than their being completely choked by utter falsities arising from the evil which ruled them when they were in the world. When they are completely choked by them there they are in hell. The actual evils and falsities in which those people are now immersed are what torment them. But the torment is not due to any grief they feel because they have done evil in the past but because - since doing evil is the delight of their life - they cannot do it in the present; for when they do evil there they suffer punishment and torment at the hands of those to whom they do it. What motivates them chiefly when they do evil to one another is a desire to exercise control, in order to place others in subjection to themselves, which, if others do not allow themselves to be placed in subjection, they accomplish by a thousand methods of punishment and torment. But control there, which they constantly strive to possess, passes by turns from one to another, which means that those who have punished and tormented others are then themselves punished and tormented by others. And this goes on until at length the fear of punishment serves to cool their ardour. From all this one may now see where hell originates and what hell is. Nor is hell fire anything other than the cravings of self-love, which inflame and torment, 6314, 7324, 7575.

  
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