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1 ALLORA Mosè, co’ figliuoli d’Israele, cantò questo cantico al Signore, e dissero così: Io canterò al Signore, perciocchè egli si è sommamente magnificato; Egli ha traboccato in mare il cavallo, e colui che lo cavalcava.

2 Il Signore è la mia forza e il mio cantico, E mi è stato in salvezza; Quest’è il mio Dio, io lo glorificherò; L’Iddio del padre mio, io l’esalterò.

3 Il Signore è un gran guerriero; Il suo Nome è, il Signore.

4 Egli ha traboccati in mare i carri di Faraone, e il suo esercito; E la scelta de’ suoi capitani è stata sommersa nel mar rosso.

5 Gli abissi li hanno coperti; Essi sono andati a fondo, come una pietra.

6 La tua destra, o Signore, è stata magnificata in forza; La tua destra, o Signore, ha rotto il nemico.

7 E con la tua magnifica grandezza, Tu hai distrutti coloro che s’innalzavano contro a te; Tu hai mandata l’ira tua, Che li ha consumati come stoppia.

8 E, col soffiar delle tue nari, l’acque sono state accumulate; Le correnti si son fermate come un mucchio; Gli abissi si sono assodati nel cuor del mare.

9 Il nemico dicea: Io li perseguirò, io li raggiungerò, Io partirò le spoglie, l’anima mia si sazierà di essi; Io sguainerò la mia spada, la mia mano li sterminerà.

10 Ma tu hai soffiato col tuo vento, e il mare li ha coperti; Essi sono stati affondati come piombo in acque grosse.

11 Chi è pari a te fra gl’iddii, o Signore? Chi è pari a te, magnifico in santità, Reverendo in laudi, facitor di miracoli?

12 Tu hai distesa la tua destra, E la terra li ha tranghiottiti.

13 Tu hai condotto, per la tua benignità, Il popolo che tu hai riscattato; Tu l’hai guidato per la tua forza Verso l’abitacolo della tua santità.

14 I popoli l’hanno inteso, ed hanno tremato; Dolore ha colti gli abitanti della Palestina.

15 Allora sono stati smarriti i principi di Edom; Tremore ha occupati i possenti di Moab; Tutti gli abitanti di Canaan si sono strutti.

16 Spavento e terrore caggia loro addosso; Sieno stupefatti per la grandezza del tuo braccio, come una pietra; Finchè sia passato il tuo popolo, o Signore; Finchè sia passato il popolo che tu hai acquistato.

17 Tu l’introdurrai, e lo pianterai nel Monte della tua eredità; Nel luogo che tu hai preparato per tua stanza, o Signore; Nel Santuario, o Signore, che le tue mani hanno stabilito.

18 Il Signore regnerà in sempiterno.

19 Questo disse Mosè; perciocchè i cavalli di Faraone, co’ suoi carri, e co’ suoi cavalieri, erano entrati nel mare, e il Signore avea fatte ritornar sopra loro le acque del mare; ma i figliuoli d’Israele erano camminati per mezzo il mare per l’asciutto.

20 E Maria profetessa, sorella di Aaronne, prese in mano un tamburo; e tutte le donne uscirono dietro a lei, con tamburi, e con danze.

21 E Maria rispondeva a Mosè e agli altri uomini, dicendo: Cantate al Signore; perciocchè egli si è sommamente magnificato; Egli ha traboccato in mare il cavallo e colui che lo cavalcava.

22 POI Mosè fece partir gl’Israeliti dal mar rosso; ed essi procedettero innanzi verso il deserto di Sur; e camminarono tre giornate nel deserto senza trovar acqua.

23 Poi arrivarono a Mara; e non potevano ber dell’acque di Mara; perciocchè erano amare; perciò a quel luogo fu posto nome Mara.

24 E il popolo mormorò contro a Mosè, dicendo; Che berremo?

25 Ed egli gridò al Signore; e il Signore gli mostrò un legno, il quale egli gittò nell’acque, e l’acque divennero dolci. Quivi ordinò il Signore al popolo statuti e leggi; e quivi ancora lo provò.

26 E disse: Se del tutto tu ubbidisci alla voce del Signore Iddio tuo, e fai ciò che gli piace, e porgi gli orecchi a’ suoi comandamenti, e osservi tutti i suoi statuti; io non ti metterò addosso niuna delle infermità, le quali io ho messe sopra l’Egitto; perciocchè io sono il Signore che ti guarisco d’ogni male.

27 Poi vennero in Elim, e quivi erano dodici fontane d’acqua, e settanta palme; e si accamparono quivi presso all’acque.

   


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#8325

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8325. 'You will bring them in' means raising up. This is clear from the meaning of 'bringing in', when used to denote taking to heaven, as raising up. The words 'raising up' are used because heaven beheld by outward sight that spirits possess is on high; and when beheld by inward sight such as angels possess heaven occupies an inward position. Everything inward in the next life manifests itself in a representative fashion as something above, and everything outward as something below; consequently heaven appears up above and hell down below, 2148, 3084, 4599, 5146. For states of truth and good, and in the contrary sense states of falsity and evil, are what positions high up and those deep down, in short, distances and places, represent in the next life, see 2625, 2837, 3356, 3387, 4321, 4882, 5605, 7381.

[2] The following experience alone enables one to infer how difficult it is for a natural man to apprehend spiritual things, consequently things that belong to heaven. Can anyone like him see that space and time do not exist in heaven, but states instead? Or to be more precise, that states of good or states of being (esse) exist there, presenting themselves as extents of space, and states of truth or states of coming-into-being (existere), presenting themselves as periods of time? Will not a merely natural man suppose that where time and space do not exist there is complete emptiness and nothingness? From this it is evident that if a natural man makes up his mind to believe nothing apart from what he can apprehend he lays himself open to grossly mistaken ideas. And as it is with space and time, so it is also with many other matters. For example, a natural man inevitably falls into a nonsensical way of thinking about God when with notions involving the passage of time he contemplates what God was doing before the creation of the world, that is, what He was engaged in from eternity up to then. Nor can he be extricated from that tangled knot until notions of time and space are banished. When angels contemplate that eternity they never do so with notions of time but with ideas of state.

[3] In the next life two statues appear, partly of flesh and partly of stone. They are stationed on the edge of the created universe, in front over to the left. They are said to swallow up those who contemplate what God was doing from eternity before He created the world. The swallowing up represents the consideration that since a person cannot contemplate anything without notions involving space and time he cannot extricate himself from the difficulty unaided. He does so only with the aid of God, either by ceasing to contemplate the matter or by banishing notions involving time.

  
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Arcana Coelestia#4599

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4599. 'And pitched his tent beyond the tower of Eder' means more interior aspects of this. This is clear from the meaning of 'pitching a tent' as an advance in holiness, in this case towards more interior aspects - 'a tent' meaning holiness, see 414, 1102, 2145, 2152, 3312, 4391; from the meaning of 'beyond the tower' as into more interior aspects, dealt with below; and from the meaning of 'Eder' as the nature of the state, that is to say, the nature of the advance made in holiness towards more interior aspects. This tower possessed that meaning from of old, but because there is no further reference to it in the Word apart from Joshua 15:21, this cannot be proved from parallel passages in the way other names can. The reason 'beyond the tower' means towards more interior aspects is that things which are more interior are expressed as objects that are lofty and high - as mountains, hills, towers, housetops, and the like. The reason for this is that minds which form their ideas from natural objects in the world as perceived through the external senses see things of an interior nature as objects that are higher than others, 2148.

[2] That 'towers' means interior things may also be seen from other places in the Word, as in Isaiah,

My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill, 1 which he surrounded [with an enclosure] and gathered out the stones, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it. Isaiah 5:1-2.

'A vineyard' stands for the spiritual Church, 'the choicest vine' for spiritual good, 'he built a tower in the midst of it' for the interior aspects of truth. Similarly also in the Lord's parable in Matthew,

A householder planted a vineyard, and set a hedge around it, and dug a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to tenants. Matthew 21:33; Mark 12:1.

[3] In Ezekiel,

The sons of Arvad, and your army, were on your walls round about, and Gammadim were in your towers; they hung their shields on your walls round about; they made perfect your beauty. Ezekiel 27:11.

This refers to Tyre, by which are meant cognitions of good and truth, or people who possess these cognitions. 'Gammadim in its tower' stands for cognitions of interior truth.

[4] In Micah,

Jehovah will reign over them in Mount Zion, from now on and for ever. And you, O tower of the flock, hill of the daughter of Zion, to you will it come, and the former kingdom will return, the kingdom of the daughter of Jerusalem. Micah 4:7-8.

This describes the Lord's celestial kingdom. 'Mount Zion' describes the inmost part of it, which is love to the Lord; 'hill of the daughter of Zion' its immediate derivative, which is mutual love, called in the spiritual sense charity towards the neighbour; 'tower of the flock' describes its interior truths of good. The existence of a spiritual-celestial kingdom from this is meant by 'the kingdom of the daughter of Jerusalem'. In David,

Mount Zion will be glad, the daughters of Judah will be exultant, because of Your judgements. Encompass Zion, and go around her; count up her towers. Psalms 48:11-12.

Here 'towers' stands for interior truths which defend the things that constitute love and charity.

[5] In Luke,

Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple. For who of you, when he wishes to build a tower, does not first sit down and work out the cost, whether he has the means to complete it? Or what king going to encounter another king in war does not first sit down and take counsel whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand? So every one of you who does not renounce all that is his own cannot be My disciple. Luke 14:27-28, 31, 33.

Anyone who is not acquainted with the internal sense of the Word can only suppose that here the Lord was using comparisons, and that the expressions 'building a tower' and 'going to war' were not used to mean anything more. He does not know that each comparison in the Word has a spiritual meaning, and is representative, and that 'building a tower' means acquiring interior truths to oneself and 'going to war' fighting from those truths. For the subject in this quotation is the temptations undergone by those who belong to the Church and are here called the Lord's disciples. Those temptations are meant by 'his own cross' which each of them has to carry; and the truth that they do not in any way conquer of themselves and from what is their own but from the Lord is meant by 'he who does not renounce all that is his own cannot be My disciple'. This is how these expressions hang together; but if the references to a tower and to war are understood to be simply comparisons without a more interior sense they do not hang together. From this one may see what light flows from the internal sense.

[6] The interiors of those who are governed by self-love and love of the world, and so the falsities from which they fight and from which they reinforce their kind of religion, are also expressed as 'towers' in the contrary sense, as in Isaiah,

The height of men (vir) will be brought low, and Jehovah alone will be exalted on that day, for the day of Jehovah Zebaoth will be against everyone that is lofty and high, and against everyone that is lifted up, and he will be humbled; and against all the cedars of Lebanon that are high and lifted up and against all the oaks of Bashan, and against all high mountains, and against all hills that are lifted up, and against every lofty tower and against every fortified wall. Isaiah 2:11-18.

Here the interior and exterior aspects of those loves are described by cedars, oaks, mountains, hills, a tower, and a wall - interior falsities being described by 'a tower'. Thus interior things are again described by objects that are 'high'. The difference however is this: People who are governed by these - by evils and falsities - believe that they themselves are high and above others, whereas those who are governed by goods and truths believe that they themselves are least and below others, Matthew 20:26-27; Mark 10:44. All the same, goods and truths are described as things that are 'high' because in heaven they are closer to the Most High, that is, to the Lord. Furthermore 'towers' is used in the Word in reference to truths, but 'mountains' to forms of good.

脚注:

1. literally, on a horn of a son of oil

  
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