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Ezechiele 45

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1 ORA, quando voi spartirete a sorte il paese per eredità, offerite, per offerta al Signore, una porzione consacrata del paese, di lunghezza di venticinquemila cubiti, e di larghezza di diecimila. Quello spazio sarà santo, per tutti i suoi confini, d’ogn’intorno.

2 Di esso prendansi per lo Luogo santo cinquecento cubiti per lungo, ed altrettanti per largo, in quadro d’ogn’intorno; e cinquanta cubiti per le pertinenze di fuori d’ogn’intorno.

3 Misura adunque uno spazio di questa misura, cioè, di lunghezza di venticinquemila cubiti, e di larghezza di diecimila; ed in quello spazio sarà il santuario, il Luogo santissimo.

4 Esso è una porzione santificata del paese; essa sarà per i sacerdoti, ministri del santuario che si accostano al Signore, per ministrargli; sarà loro un luogo da case; oltre al Luogo santo per lo santuario.

5 Poi misura un altro spazio di venticinquemila cubiti di lunghezza, e di diecimila di larghezza; quello sarà per i Leviti, ministri della Casa, per lor possessione, con venti camere.

6 Poi ordinate, per la possession della città, cinquemila cubiti in larghezza, e venticinquemila in lunghezza, allato all’offerta la casa d’Israele.

7 Poi assegnate la parte al principe, di qua, e di là della santa offerta, e della possession della città, allato alla santa offerta, ed alla possession della città, dall’Occidente, e fino all’estremità occidentale; e dall’Oriente, fino all’estremità orientale; e la lunghezza sia uguale ad una di quelle parti, dall’estremità occidentale fino all’orientale.

8 Egli avrà quello del paese per sua possessione in Israele; ed i miei principi non oppresseranno più il mio popolo, e lasceranno il rimanente del paese alla casa d’Israele, per le lor tribù.

9 Così ha detto il Signore Iddio: Bastivi, principi d’Israele; togliete via la violenza, e la rapina; e fate giustizia, e giudicio; levate le vostre storsioni d’addosso al mio popolo, dice il Signore Iddio.

10 Abbiate bilance giuste, ed efa giusto, e bat giusto.

11 Sia l’efa, e il bat, d’una medesima misura, prendendo il bat per la decima parte d’un homer, e l’efa similmente per la decima parte d’un homer; sia la misura dell’uno e dell’altro a ragion dell’homer;

12 e sia il siclo di venti oboli; e siavi la mina di venti sicli, di venticinque sicli, e di quindici sicli.

13 QUEST’è l’offerta che voi offerirete: la sesta parte d’un efa dell’homer del frumento; voi darete parimente la sesta parte d’un efa dell’homer dell’orzo.

14 E lo statuto dell’olio il bat è la misura dell’olio è che si dia la decima parte d’un bat, per coro, che è l’homer di dieci bati; conciossiachè l’homer sia di dieci bati.

15 E del minuto bestiame lo statuto è che si dia di dugento bestie una dei luoghi grassi d’Israele; e quest’offerta sarà per le offerte di panatica, e per gli olocausti, e per li sacrificii da render grazie, per far purgamento per essi, dice il Signore Iddio.

16 Tutto il popolo del paese sarà tenuto a quell’offerta, la quale egli darà al principe che sarà in Israele.

17 Ed al principe si apparterrà di fornir gli olocausti, e le offerte di panatica, e le offerte da spandere, nelle feste solenni, e nelle calendi, e ne’ sabati, in tutte le solennità della casa d’Israele; egli fornirà i sacrificii per lo peccato, e le offerte di panatica, e gli olocausti, e i sacrificii da render grazie, per far purgamento per la casa d’Israele.

18 Così ha detto il Signore Iddio: Nel primo mese, nel primo giorno del mese, prendi un giovenco senza difetto, e purifica il santuario, sacrificando questo giovenco per lo peccato.

19 E prenda il sacerdote del sangue di questo sacrificio per lo peccato, e mettalo sopra gli stipiti della casa, e sopra i quattro canti delle sportature dell’altare, e sopra gli stipiti della porta del cortile di dentro.

20 Fa’ il simigliante nel settimo giorno del medesimo mese, per colui che avrà peccato per errore, e per lo scempio; e così purgherete la casa.

21 Nel primo mese, nel quartodecimo giorno del mese, siavi la Pasqua; sia una festa solenne di sette giorni, ne’ quali manginsi pani azzimi.

22 E in quel giorno sacrifichi il principe, per sè, e per tutto il popolo del paese, un giovenco per sacrificio per lo peccato.

23 E ne’ sette giorni della festa, sacrifichi, per olocausto al Signore, sette giovenchi, e sette montoni, senza difetto, per ciascuno di que’ sette giorni; e, per sacrificio per lo peccato, un becco per giorno.

24 Offerisca eziandio per offerta di panatica, un efa di fior di farina, per giovenco; e parimente un efa per montone, e un hin d’olio per efa.

25 Nel settimo mese, nel quintodecimo giorno del mese, nella festa solenne, offerisca le medesime cose per sette giorni, il medesimo sacrificio per lo peccato, il medesimo olocausto, la medesima offerta di panatica, ed il medesimo olio.

   


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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904. 21:15 And he who talked with me had a gold reed to measure the city, its gates, and its wall. This symbolically means that to people who possess the goodness of love, the Lord grants a faculty for understanding and knowing the nature of the Lord's New Church as regards its doctrine and its introductory truths, and as regards the Word from which they are drawn.

He who spoke with me symbolizes the Lord speaking from heaven, because it was an angel speaking, one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls mentioned in verse 9, who means the Lord speaking from heaven (no. 895). A reed symbolizes a power or ability springing from the goodness of love - a reed symbolizing power or ability (no. 485), and gold the goodness of love (nos. 211, 726). To measure means, symbolically, to learn the character of a thing, thus to understand and know it (no. 486). The city, the holy Jerusalem, symbolizes the church in respect to its doctrine (nos. 879, 880). Its gates symbolize concepts of truth and goodness from the Word's literal sense, which are truths and goods owing to the spiritual life in them (no. 899). And the wall symbolizes the Word in its literal sense from which the doctrine and concepts come (no. 898).

It is apparent from this that "he who talked with me had a gold reed to measure the city, its gates, and its wall," symbolically means that to people who possess the goodness of love, the Lord grants a faculty for understanding and knowing the nature of the Lord's New Church as regards its doctrine and its introductory truths, and as regards the Word from which they are drawn.

[2] These symbolic meanings cannot be seen at all in the literal sense, for one sees in it only that an angel speaking with John had a gold reed with which to measure the city and its gates and wall. But even so, that these words contain another meaning, a spiritual meaning, is clearly apparent from the fact that the city Jerusalem does not mean a real city, but the church. Consequently everything said about Jerusalem as a city symbolizes such things as have to do with the church, and everything having to do with the church is, in itself, spiritual.

Such a spiritual meaning is present also in what is said in chapter 11 above, where we are told the following:

I was given a reed like a measuring rod. And the angel stood by, saying, "Rise and measure the temple of God, the altar, and those who worship there." (Revelation 11:1)

A similar spiritual meaning is present, too, in everything that the angel measured with a reed in Ezekiel 40; 41; 42; 43; 44; 45; 46; 47; 48. Also in these verses in Zechariah:

I raised my eyes and looked, and behold, a man with a measuring line in his hand. So I said, "Where are you going?" And he said to me, "To measure Jerusalem, to see what its width is and what its length." (Zechariah 2:1-2)

Indeed, such a spiritual meaning is present in everything connected with the Tabernacle and in everything connected with the Temple in Jerusalem, whose measurements we are told, and also in the measurements themselves. And yet nothing of this can be seen in the literal sense.

  
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Many thanks to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and to Rev. N.B. Rogers, translator, for the permission to use this translation.

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Ezekiel 48

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1 Now these are the names of the tribes: From the north end, beside the way of Hethlon to the entrance of Hamath, Hazar Enan at the border of Damascus, northward beside Hamath, (and they shall have their sides east [and] west), Dan, one [portion].

2 By the border of Dan, from the east side to the west side, Asher, one [portion].

3 By the border of Asher, from the east side even to the west side, Naphtali, one [portion].

4 By the border of Naphtali, from the east side to the west side, Manasseh, one [portion].

5 By the border of Manasseh, from the east side to the west side, Ephraim, one [portion].

6 By the border of Ephraim, from the east side even to the west side, Reuben, one [portion].

7 By the border of Reuben, from the east side to the west side, Judah, one [portion].

8 By the border of Judah, from the east side to the west side, shall be the offering which you shall offer, twenty-five thousand [reeds] in breadth, and in length as one of the portions, from the east side to the west side: and the sanctuary shall be in its midst.

9 The offering that you shall offer to Yahweh shall be twenty-five thousand [reeds] in length, and ten thousand in breadth.

10 For these, even for the priests, shall be the holy offering: toward the north twenty-five thousand [in length], and toward the west ten thousand in breadth, and toward the east ten thousand in breadth, and toward the south twenty-five thousand in length: and the sanctuary of Yahweh shall be in its midst.

11 [It shall be] for the priests who are sanctified of the sons of Zadok, who have kept my instruction, who didn't go astray when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray.

12 It shall be to them an offering from the offering of the land, a thing most holy, by the border of the Levites.

13 Answerable to the border of the priests, the Levites shall have twenty-five thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth: all the length shall be twenty-five thousand, and the breadth ten thousand.

14 They shall sell none of it, nor exchange it, nor shall the first fruits of the land be alienated; for it is holy to Yahweh.

15 The five thousand that are left in the breadth, in front of the twenty-five thousand, shall be for common use, for the city, for dwelling and for suburbs; and the city shall be in its midst.

16 These shall be its measures: the north side four thousand and five hundred, and the south side four thousand and five hundred, and on the east side four thousand and five hundred, and the west side four thousand and five hundred.

17 The city shall have suburbs: toward the north two hundred fifty, and toward the south two hundred fifty, and toward the east two hundred fifty, and toward the west two hundred fifty.

18 The remainder in the length, answerable to the holy offering, shall be ten thousand eastward, and ten thousand westward; and it shall be answerable to the holy offering; and its increase shall be for food to those who labor in the city.

19 Those who labor in the city, out of all the tribes of Israel, shall cultivate it.

20 All the offering shall be twenty-five thousand by twenty-five thousand: you shall offer the holy offering foursquare, with the possession of the city.

21 The residue shall be for the prince, on the one side and on the other of the holy offering and of the possession of the city; in front of the twenty-five thousand of the offering toward the east border, and westward in front of the twenty-five thousand toward the west border, answerable to the portions, it shall be for the prince: and the holy offering and the sanctuary of the house shall be in its midst.

22 Moreover from the possession of the Levites, and from the possession of the city, being in the midst of that which is the prince's, between the border of Judah and the border of Benjamin, it shall be for the prince.

23 As for the rest of the tribes: from the east side to the west side, Benjamin, one [portion].

24 By the border of Benjamin, from the east side to the west side, Simeon, one [portion].

25 By the border of Simeon, from the east side to the west side, Issachar, one [portion].

26 By the border of Issachar, from the east side to the west side, Zebulun, one [portion].

27 By the border of Zebulun, from the east side to the west side, Gad, one [portion].

28 By the border of Gad, at the south side southward, the border shall be even from Tamar to the waters of Meribath Kadesh, to the brook [of Egypt], to the great sea.

29 This is the land which you shall divide by lot to the tribes of Israel for inheritance, and these are their several portions, says the Lord Yahweh.

30 These are the exits of the city: On the north side four thousand and five hundred [reeds] by measure;

31 and the gates of the city shall be after the names of the tribes of Israel, three gates northward: the gate of Reuben, one; the gate of Judah, one; the gate of Levi, one.

32 At the east side four thousand and five hundred [reeds], and three gates: even the gate of Joseph, one; the gate of Benjamin, one; the gate of Dan, one.

33 At the south side four thousand and five hundred [reeds] by measure, and three gates: the gate of Simeon, one; the gate of Issachar, one; the gate of Zebulun, one.

34 At the west side four thousand and five hundred [reeds], with their three gates: the gate of Gad, one; the gate of Asher, one; the gate of Naphtali, one.

35 It shall be eighteen thousand [reeds] around: and the name of the city from that day shall be, Yahweh is there.