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1 FA’ ancora un Altare da fare i profumi; fallo di legno di Sittim.

2 Sia quadro, di lunghezza d’un cubito, e di larghezza d’un cubito; e sia la sua altezza di due cubiti; sieno le sue corna tirate di esso.

3 E coprilo d’oro puro, il suo coperchio, i suoi lati d’intorno, e le sue corna; e fagli una corona d’oro attorno attorno.

4 Fagli ancora due anelli d’oro disotto a quella sua corona, a’ due suoi cantoni; falli da due dei suoi lati; e sieno per mettervi dentro le stanghe, per portar l’Altare con esse.

5 E fa’ le stanghe di legno di Sittim, e coprile d’oro.

6 E metti quell’Altare davanti alla Cortina, che sarà dirimpetto all’Arca della Testimonianza, davanti al Coperchio che sarà sopra la Testimonianza, dove io mi ritroverò teco.

7 E faccia Aaronne profumo di aromati sopra esso; faccia quel profumo ogni mattina, quando egli avrà acconce le lampane.

8 E faccia Aaronne quel medesimo profumo, quando avrà accese le lampane fra i due vespri. Sia questo un profumo continuo davanti al Signore, per le vostre età.

9 Non offerite sopra esso alcun profumo strano, nè olocausto, nè offerta; e non ispandete alcuno spargimento sopra esso.

10 E faccia Aaronne, una volta l’anno, purgamento de’ peccati sopra le corna di esso; faccia quel purgamento una volta l’anno, per le vostre età, sopra esso, col sangue del sacrificio de’ purgamenti, fatto per lo peccato. Questo Altare sia una cosa santissima al Signore.

11 IL Signore parlò ancora a Mosè, dicendo:

12 Quando tu farai la rassegna de’ figliuoli d’Israele, di coloro d’infra essi che devono essere annoverati, dia ciascuno al Signore il riscatto dell’anima sua, quando saranno annoverati; acciocchè non venga sopra essi alcuna piaga, mentre saranno annoverati.

13 Essi daranno questo: chiunque passa fra gli annoverati, darà un mezzo siclo, a siclo di Santuario, il quale è di venti oboli, per offerta al Signore.

14 Chiunque passa fra gli annoverati, di età da vent’anni in su, darà quell’offerta al Signore.

15 Il ricco non darà più, nè il povero meno di un mezzo siclo, in questa offerta al Signore, per lo riscatto delle anime vostre.

16 E piglia que’ danari de’ riscatti dai figliuoli d’Israele, e impiegali nell’opera del Tabernacolo della convenenza, e sieno per ricordanza per li figliuoli d’Israele, nel cospetto del Signore, per fare il riscatto delle anime vostre.

17 IL Signore parlò ancora a Mosè, dicendo:

18 Fa’, oltre a ciò, una Conca di rame, col suo piè di rame, per lavare; e ponila fra il Tabernacolo della convenenza e l’Altare; e mettivi dentro dell’acqua.

19 E lavinsene Aaronne e i suoi figliuoli le mani ed i piedi.

20 Quando entreranno nel Tabernacolo della convenenza, ovvero quando si accosteranno all’Altare, per fare il servigio divino per far bruciare alcuna offerta fatta col fuoco al Signore, lavinsi con acqua, acciocchè non muoiano.

21 E lavinsi le mani ed i piedi, acciocchè non muoiano. Sia loro questo uno statuto perpetuo; ad Aaronne, dico, e a’ suoi figliuoli, per le loro età.

22 Il Signore parlò ancora a Mosè, dicendo:

23 Prenditi degli aromati eccellenti, della mirra schietta il peso di cinquecento sicli, del cinamomo odoroso la metà, cioè dugencinquanta, e della canna odorosa parimente dugencinquanta;

24 e della cassia cinquecento sicli, a siclo di Santurario; e un hin d’olio di uliva.

25 E fanne l’olio per la sacra Unzione, un unguento composto per arte d’unguentaro. Questo sia l’olio della sacra Unzione.

26 Ungi con esso il Tabernacolo della convenenza, e l’Arca della Testimonianza;

27 e la Tavola, e tutti i suoi strumenti; ed il Candelliere, e tutti i suoi strumenti; e l’Altar de’ profumi;

28 e l’Altar degli olocausti, e tutti i suoi strumenti; e la Conca, e il suo piè.

29 Così consacrerai quelle cose, e saranno cose santissime; tutto quello che le toccherà sia sacro.

30 Ungi parimente Aaronne e i suoi figliuoli, e consacrali acciocchè mi esercitino il sacerdozio.

31 E parla a’ figliuoli d’Israele, dicendo: Quest’olio mi sarà un olio di sacra unzione, per le vostre età.

32 Non ungasene la carne di alcun uomo, e non ne fate alcun simigliante, secondo la sua composizione; egli è cosa santa; siavi cosa santa.

33 Chi ne comporrà del simigliante, ovvero chi ne metterà sopra alcuna persona strana, sia riciso da’ suoi popoli.

34 Il Signore disse oltre a ciò a Mosè: Prenditi degli aromati, storace liquida, unghia odorosa, e galbano, e incenso puro; ciascuno aromato a parte a peso uguale.

35 E fanne un profumo una composizione aromatica fatta per arte di profumiere, confettata, pura e santa.

36 E di essa stritolane alquanto minuto minuto, e mettilo davanti alla Testimonianza, nel Tabernacolo della convenenza, dove io mi troverò teco. Siavi questo profumo una cosa santissima.

37 E non fatevi alcun profumo di composizione simigliante a quello che tu avrai fatto. Siati esso una cosa sacra al Signore.

38 Chi ne farà del simigliante, per odorarlo, sia riciso da’ suoi popoli.

   


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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Apocalypse Explained#222

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222. And I will write upon him the name of my God. That this signifies their quality according to Divine truth implanted in the life is evident from the signification of writing upon any one, when it is said to be done by the Lord, as denoting to implant in the life, concerning which we shall speak presently, also from the signification of name, as denoting the quality of their state (concerning which see above n. 148); and from the signification of God, as denoting Divine truth proceeding from the Lord in heaven, and thus the Lord in heaven (see n. 220); for the Lord is above the heavens, for He appears to those who are in heaven as a Sun (as may be seen in the work, Heaven and Hell. n. 116-125). The Divine proceeding from the Sun of heaven, which is called Divine truth, and which constitutes heaven in general and in particular, is what in the Word is meant by God; hence it is that the angels are called gods, and that the term for God, in the Hebrew tongue, is Elohim, in the plural. From these considerations it is clear why the Lord here says, "the name of my God;" also above, "I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God" (n. 219), and in what follows, "I will write upon him the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God" (n. 223).

The reason why writing upon any one denotes to implant in the life is, that to write is to commit anything to paper from the memory, thought and mind, in order that it may remain; therefore, in the spiritual sense it signifies that which will remain in the life of man, inscribed and implanted in him. Thus the natural sense of this expression is turned into the spiritual sense; for it is natural to write upon paper, or in a book, but it is spiritual to inscribe on the life, which is done when it is implanted in faith and love; for love and faith constitute the spiritual life of man.

[2] Because to write signifies to implant in the life, therefore also it is said of Jehovah, or the Lord, that He writes, and that He has written in a book, by which is meant what is inscribed by the Lord on man's spirit, that is, in his heart and soul, or, what is the same, in his love and faith. As, in David:

"My bone was not hidden from thee, when I was made in secret; upon thy book were all the days written when they were formed, and not one of them is wanting" (Psalms 139:15, 16).

Again:

"Let them be blotted out of the book of lives, and not be written with the just" (69:28).

In Daniel:

"The people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book" (12:1).

In Moses:

"Blot me, I pray out of the book which thou hast written. And Jehovah said unto Moses, Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book" (Exodus 32:32, 33).

In the Apocalypse:

"A book written within and on the back side, sealed with seven seals," which no one was able to open but the Lamb only (5:1).

Again:

"All whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb" shall worship the beast (13:8; 17:8).

And again:

"I saw that the books were opened; and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire" (20:12, 13, 15).

And again:

And none shall enter into the New Jerusalem except "those that are written in the Lamb's book of life" (21:27).

From these passages it is not to be understood that the persons referred to are written in a book, but that all the things of faith and love are inscribed on man's spirit (as is evident from what is said upon this subject in the work, Heaven and Hell 461-469).

[3] That to write, in the Word, signifies to inscribe and implant in the life, is also evident from other passages where it is mentioned; as in Jeremiah:

"I will put my law in the midst of them, and will write it on their heart" (31:33).

To put the law in the midst of them, denotes Divine truth in them, in the midst, signifies inwardly in man (as may be seen, Arcana Coelestia 1074, 2940, 2973); and to write it on their heart, is to impress it upon the love, for the heart signifies the love (see Arcana Coelestia 7542, 9050, 10336). In Ezekiel:

"The prophet saw the roll of a book written within and without, and there were written thereon lamentations, mourning and woe" (2:9, 10; 3:1-3).

By the roll of a book written within and without is signified the state of the church at that time, thus the quality of the life of those who belonged to the church; therefore the roll of the book here mentioned has a signification similar to that of the book of life mentioned above; and because their life was destitute of the goods of love and truths of faith, it is said, that "There was written thereon, lamentations, and mourning and woe."

By the law being written upon tables of stone, and with the finger of God (Exodus 31:18; Deuteronomy 4:13; 9:10),

was signified that it must be impressed on the life (Arcana Coelestia 9416); for by the law, in the strict sense, the ten precepts of the Decalogue are meant, but in a broad sense, the whole Word (see Arcana Coelestia 6752, 7463). By stone is signified truth, and there it signifies Divine truth (see Arcana Coelestia 643, 1298, 3720, 6426, 8609, 10376). The same is signified by

The words of the law being written upon the twelve stones taken out of Jordan (Deuteronomy 27:2-4, 8; Josh. 4:3, and the following verses).

[4] In Ezekiel:

"Son of man, take thee one stick and write upon it, For Judah, and for the sons of Israel, his companions: and take another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and all the house of Israel, and his companions. Afterwards join them one to another into one stick, that they may both be one in my hand" 37:16, 17).

What these things signify no one can know unless he knows what was represented by Judah, and what by Joseph. By Judah was represented the celestial kingdom of the Lord, and by Joseph his spiritual kingdom; and by writing for them upon two sticks of wood, was signified the state of the love, and thence of the life of both. Their conjunction into one heaven was signified by joining them one to another into one piece, that they might be one in my hand. The signification of this is similar to that of the Lord's words,

"Other sheep I have which are not of this fold; them also I must bring; and there shall be one flock, and one shepherd" (John 10:16).

The reason why the writing was to be upon wood was, because wood signifies good, and it is good which conjoins. (But these things will be clearer from what is shown in the Arcana Coelestia, namely, that the spiritual kingdom before the Lord's coming was not like it was after his coming, n. 6372, 8054: that the spiritual especially were saved by the coming of the Lord into the world, and that they were then conjoined with those who were of His celestial kingdom into one heaven, n. 2661, 2716, 2833, 2834, 3969, 6854, 6914, 7035, 7091, 7828, 7932, 8018, 8159, 8321, 9684. That there are two kingdoms, the celestial and the spiritual, and three heavens, and that they are conjoined into one heaven, may be seen in the work, Heaven and Hell 20-28, and 29-40. That by Judah, in the representative sense, is signified the Lord's celestial kingdom, Arcana Coelestia 3654, 3881, 5583, 5603, 5782, 6363: that by Joseph is signified the Lord's spiritual kingdom, n. 3969, 3971, 4669, 6417: that by Ephraim is signified the Intellectual of the spiritual church, 3969, 5354, 6222, 6234, 6238, 6267, 6296: that by wood is signified the good of love, n. 643, 3720, 8354.)

[5] In Isaiah:

"This one shall say, I am of Jehovah; and another shall call himself by the name of Jacob; and another shall write with his hand unto Jehovah, and surname himself by the name of Israel" (44:5).

These things are said concerning the Lord and His Divine Human. By Jacob and by Israel, where the Lord is treated of, is signified His human; and that it was also Jehovah is meant by one saying, "I am of Jehovah," and by subscribing with his own hand unto Jehovah. (That, in the highest sense, Israel and Jacob denote the Lord, may be seen, Arcana Coelestia 4286, 4570, 6424.)

[6] In Jeremiah:

"Jehovah the hope of Israel, all that forsake me shall be ashamed, and they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken Jehovah, the fountain of living waters. Heal me, O Jehovah, and I shall be healed" (17:13, 14).

To be written in the earth, is to be condemned on account of the state of the life, because by earth is signified what is condemned (as may be seen, Arcana Coelestia 2327, 7418, 8306).

[7] Hence it is evident what is signified by the Lord's writing with his finger on the earth, as recorded in John:

"The Scribes and Pharisees brought unto Jesus a woman taken in adultery; they said, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act." They asked whether, according to the law of Moses, she should be stoned. "Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the earth, and rising said, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her. And again he stooped down, and wrote on the earth." These things being heard they went out one after another, and Jesus was left alone, and the woman to whom he said, "Where are thine accusers; hath no man condemned thee? And he said, Go and sin no more" (John 8:3-11).

By the Lord writing on the earth, is signified the same as above in Jeremiah, where it is said, "They that depart from me shall be written in the earth," namely, that they were equally condemned on account of adulteries; therefore Jesus said, "He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her."

That the Lord twice wrote on the earth in the temple, signified, in the spiritual sense, their condemnation for adulteries. For the Scribes and Pharisees were those who adulterated the goods and falsified the truths of the Word, consequently of the church; and adulteries in the spiritual sense are adulterations of good and falsifications of truth (as may be seen above, n. 141, 161); therefore also He called that nation an adulterous and sinful generation (Mark 8:38).

  
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Translation by Isaiah Tansley. Many thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.

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6363. 'Judah are you' means the celestial Church. in the highest sense the Lord's Divine celestial. This is clear from the representation of 'Judah' in the highest sense as the Lord's Divine love, which is His Divine celestial; but in the relative sense the Lord's celestial kingdom, thus the celestial Church, is meant, dealt with in 3881. What the celestial kingdom is, or the celestial Church, and what the celestial is, see 640, 641, 765, 895, 2048, 2088, 2669, 2708, 2715, 2718, 2896, 3275, 3246, 3774, 3886, 3887, 4448, 4497, 5113, 5921, 6295.

  
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