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Osea 5

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1 ASCOLTATE questo, o sacerdoti, e siate attenti, o casa d’Israele, e porgete l’orecchio, o casa del re; conciossiachè a voi appartenga il giudicio; perciocchè voi siete stati un laccio in Mispa, e una rete tesa sopra Tabor.

2 Ed essi hanno di nascosto scannati quelli che si stornano dalla strada maestra: ma io sarò correzione ad essi tutti.

3 Io conosco Efraim, e Israele non mi è nascosto; conciossiachè ora, o Efraim, tu abbi fornicato, e Israele si sia contaminato.

4 Essi non dispongono le loro opere a convertirsi all’Iddio loro; perciocchè lo spirito delle fornicazioni è dentro loro, e non conoscono il Signore.

5 E la superbia d’Israele testimonia contro a lui in faccia; laonde Israele ed Efraim caderanno per la loro iniquità; Giuda ancora caderà con loro.

6 Andranno con le lor pecore, e co’ lor buoi, a cercare il Signore; ma non lo troveranno; egli si è sottratto da loro.

7 Essi si sono dislealmente portati inverso il Signore; conciossiachè abbiano generati figliuoli bastardi; ora li divorerà un mese, con le lor possessioni.

8 Sonate col corno in Ghibea, e con la tromba in Rama; sonate a stormo in Bet-aven, dietro a te, o Beniamino.

9 Efraim sarà messo in desolazione, nel giorno del castigamento; io ho fatto assapere una cosa certa fra le tribù d’Israele.

10 I principi di Giuda son simili a quelli che muovono i termini, io spanderò la mia indegnazione sopra loro, a guisa d’acqua.

11 Efraim è oppressato, egli è fiaccato per giudicio; perciocchè volontariamente è ito dietro al comandamento.

12 Perciò, io sarò ad Efraim come una tignuola, e come un tarlo alla casa di Giuda.

13 Or Efraim, avendo veduta la sua infermità, e Giuda la sua piaga, Efraim è andato ad Assur, e Giuda ha mandato ad un re, che difendesse la sua causa; ma egli non potrà risanarvi, e non vi guarirà della vostra piaga.

14 Perciocchè io sarò come un leone ad Efraim, e come un leoncello alla casa di Giuda; io, io rapirò, e me ne andrò; io porterò via, e non vi sarà alcuno che riscuota.

15 Io me ne andrò, e me ne ritornerò al mio luogo, finchè si riconoscano colpevoli, e cerchino la mia faccia. Quando saranno in distretta, mi ricercheranno.

   


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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True Christian Religion #376

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376. Charity and faith are of no use to a person, so long as they remain merely in the bodily hemisphere, that is, in his head, and are not given a firm base in deeds; this is evident from a thousand passages in the Word, of which I shall quote only the following.

Every tree which does not produce good fruit is cut down and cast into the fire, Matthew 7:19-21.

He who sows on good soil is the person who hears the Word and pays attention to it, and bears and produces fruit. When Jesus said this, he cried out saying, He who has ears to hear with, let him hear, Matthew 13:9, 23.

Jesus said, My mother and my brothers are these who hear the Word of God and act upon it, Luke 8:21.

We know that God does not listen to sinners, but if anyone worships God, and does His will, He listens to him, John 9:31.

If you know these things, you are blessed if you act upon them, John 13:17.

He who has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me, and I shall love him, and show myself to him; and I shall come to him and make my dwelling with him, John 14:15-21, 23.

In this my Father is glorified, in that you bear much fruit, John 15:8, 16.

It is not those who hear the law, but those who keep it, who are made righteous by God, Romans 2:13; James 1:22.

On the day of wrath and righteous judgment, God will render to each in accordance with his deeds, Romans 2:5-6.

We must all be put on show before the tribunal of Christ, so that each may be rewarded for our bodily acts, whether good or ill. 2 Corinthians 5:10.

The Son of Man is to come in the glory of His Father, and then He will reward each man in accordance with his deeds, Matthew 16:27.

I heard a voice from heaven saying, Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on. So says the Spirit, so that they may rest from their labours; their deeds accompany them, Revelation 14:13.

The book was opened, which is the book of life; and the dead were judged according to what was written in the book, everyone according to his deeds, Revelation 20:12-13.

Behold I come quickly, and my reward is with me, so that I may give to each according to what he has done, Revelation 22:12.

Jehovah, whose eyes are open upon all the behaviour of men, to give to each in accordance with his behaviour, and in accordance with the fruit of his deeds, Jeremiah 32:19.

I will punish his behaviour, and his deeds I will repay him, Hosea 4:9.

Jehovah deals with us according to our behaviour and according to our deeds, Zechariah 1:6.

There are a thousand other such passages.

[2] These prove that charity and faith are not charity and faith until they are realised in deeds, and if they merely exist above the level of deeds in space, or in the mind, they are as it were images of a tent or a temple in the air, which are nothing but atmospheric phenomena which vanish of their own accord; or they resemble paintings on paper which are eaten by bookworms; or they are like dwellings on a roof, lacking a bedroom, and not in the house. These comparisons will enable one to see that charity and faith are unstable, so long as they remain mental concepts, unless, when possible, they are realised in deeds and come into existence jointly in deeds.

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

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Matthew 7:19-21

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19 Every tree that doesn't grow good fruit is cut down, and thrown into the fire.

20 Therefore, by their fruits you will know them.

21 Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in Heaven.