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Ezechiele第38章

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1 POI la parola del Signore mi fu indirizzata, dicendo:

2 Figliuol d’uomo, volgi la tua faccia verso Gog, verso il paese di Magog, principe, e capo di Mesec, e di Tubal; e profetizza contro a lui; e di’:

3 Così ha detto il Signore Iddio: Eccomi a te, o Gog, principe e capo di Mesec, e di Tubal.

4 E ti farò tornare indietro, e ti metterò de’ graffi nelle mascelle, e ti trarrò fuori, con tutto il tuo esercito, cavalli, e cavalieri, tutti quanti perfettamente ben vestiti, gran raunata di popolo, con targhe, e scudi, i quali trattano le spade tutti quanti.

5 E con loro le gente di Persia, di Cus, e di Put, tutti con iscudi, ed elmi;

6 Gomer, e tutte le sue schiere; la casa di Togarma, dal fondo del Settentrione, insieme con tutte le sue schiere; molti popoli teco.

7 Mettiti in ordine, ed apparecchiati, tu, e tutta la tua gente, che si è radunata appresso di te; e sii loro per salvaguardia.

8 Tu sarai visitato dopo molti giorni; in su la fin degli anni tu verrai nel paese del popolo riscosso dalla spada, e raccolto da molti popoli, ne’ monti d’Israele, i quali erano stati ridotti in deserto perpetuo; allora che il popolo di quel paese, essendo stato ritratto d’infra i popoli, abiterà tutto in sicurtà.

9 E salirai, e verrai a guisa di ruinosa tempesta; tu sarai a guisa di nuvola, da coprir la terra; tu, e tutte le tue schiere, e molti popoli teco.

10 Così ha detto il Signore Iddio: Egli avverrà in quel giorno, che molte cose ti saliranno nel cuore, e penserai un malvagio pensiero.

11 E dirai: Io salirò contro al paese delle villate; io verrò sopra la gente quieta, che abita in sicurtà eglino abitano tutti in luoghi senza mura, e non han nè sbarre, nè porte;

12 per ispogliare spoglie, e per predar preda; rimettendo la tua mano sopra i luoghi deserti, di nuovo abitati; e sopra il popolo raccolto dalle genti, che si adopererà intorno al bestiame, ed alle sue facoltà; ed abiterà nel bellico del paese.

13 Seba, e Dedan, e i mercatanti di Tarsis, e tutti i suoi leoncelli, ti diranno: Sei tu venuto per ispogliare spoglie? hai tu fatta la tua raunata per predar preda, per portarne via argento ed oro; per rapir bestiame, e facoltà; per ispogliar molte spoglie?

14 Perciò, figliuol d’uomo, profetizza, e di’ a Gog: Così ha detto il Signore Iddio: In quel giorno, quando il mio popolo Israele abiterà in sicurtà, nol saprai tu?

15 E tu verrai dal tuo luogo, dal fondo del Settentrione; tu, e molti popoli teco, tutti montati sopra cavalli, gran raunata, e grosso esercito.

16 E salirai contro al mio popolo Israele, a guisa di nuvola, per coprir la terra; tu sarai in su la fine de’ giorni, ed io ti farò venir sopra la mia terra; acciocchè le genti mi conoscano, quando io mi sarò santificato in te, nel cospetto loro, o Gog.

17 Così ha detto il Signore Iddio: Non sei tu quello, del quale io parlai a’ tempi antichi, per li profeti d’Israele, miei servitori, i quali profetizzarono in quei tempi, per molti anni, che io ti farei venir contro a loro?

18 Ma egli avverrà in quel giorno, nel giorno che Gog sarà venuto sopra il paese d’Israele, dice il Signore Iddio, che l’ira mi salirà nelle nari.

19 Ed io ho parlato nella mia gelosia, nel fuoco della mia indegnazione: Se in quel giorno non vi è un gran tremoto nel paese d’Israele.

20 E i pesci del mare, e gli uccelli del cielo, e le fiere della campagna, ed ogni rettile che va serpendo sopra la terra, ed ogni uomo che è sopra la terra, tremeranno per la mia presenza; e i monti saranno diroccati e i balzi caderanno, e ogni muro ruinerà a terra.

21 Ed io chiamerò la spada contro a lui, per tutti i miei monti, dice il Signore Iddio; la spada di ciascun di loro sarà contro al suo fratello.

22 E verrò a giudicio con lui con pestilenza, e con sangue; e farò piover sopra lui, e sopra le sue schiere, e sopra i molti popoli, che saranno con lui, una pioggia strabocchevole, pietre di gragnuola, fuoco, e zolfo.

23 Ed io mi magnificherò, e mi santificherò, e sarò conosciuto nel cospetto di molte genti; e conosceranno che io sono il Signore.

   


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#2447

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2447. 'From Jehovah out of heaven' means from the laws of order in regard to truth, because they separate themselves from good. This does not become clear except from the internal sense, by means of which the truth of the matter regarding forms of punishment and condemnation is disclosed, namely that the author of these is in no sense Jehovah or the Lord, but man, evil spirit, or devil himself; and this is so from the laws of order in regard to truth because they separate themselves from good.

[2] All order begins in Jehovah, that is, in the Lord, and it is in accordance with that order that He rules over every single thing. But there is much variation to His rule; that is to say, it may be His Will, or His Good Pleasure, or His Consent, or His Permission from which He rules. Things that have their origin in His will or in His good pleasure are products of laws of order which have regard to what is good, as also do many things that exist by His consent, and even some that do so by His permission. But when a person separates himself from good he subjects himself to the laws of order which are those of truth separated from good and which are such as condemn. For all truth condemns a person and casts him down into hell; but out of good, that is, out of mercy, the Lord rescues him and raises him up into heaven. From this it is clear that it is a person himself who condemns himself.

[3] Things that are the result of permission are for the most part of this nature - for example, besides countless others, the fact that one devil punishes and torments another. These things are from the laws of order in regard to truth separated from good, for there is no other way in which such devils could be kept under control and prevented from rushing on all the good and upright and destroying them eternally. The prevention of their doing this is the good which the Lord has in view. This is similar to what happens on earth where a benign and compassionate ruler exists who intends and does nothing but good. If he did not allow his laws to punish evil and criminal persons - though he himself punishes nobody but instead grieves that those people are such that their evils must punish them - he would leave his kingdom itself open to plunder by such people; and this would be a manifestation of a complete lack of benignity and compassion.

[4] From these considerations it is evident that Jehovah in no way rained down brimstone and fire, that is, condemned to hell, but that those subject to evil and to falsity which arises out of this did so, the reason being that they separated themselves from good and in so doing put themselves under the laws of order deriving from truth alone. From all this it follows that such is the internal sense of these words.

[5] In the Word, evil, punishment, cursing, condemnation, and many other things are attributed to Jehovah or the Lord, similar to the attribution here that He rained brimstone and fire: in Ezekiel,

I will dispute with him with pestilence and blood; fire and brimstone will I rain on him. Ezekiel 38:22.

In Isaiah,

The breath of Jehovah is like a stream of burning brimstone. Isaiah 30:33.

In David,

Jehovah will rain on the wicked snares, fire and brimstone. Psalms 11:6.

In the same author,

Smoke went up out of His nose, and fire out of His mouth devoured; glowing coals flamed forth from Him. Psalms 18:8-9.

In Jeremiah,

Lest My wrath go forth like fire, and burn with none to quench it. Jeremiah 21:12.

In Moses,

Fire has flared up in My anger, and will burn right down to the lowest hell. Deuteronomy 32:22.

Similar attributions occur in many other places besides these. Why in the Word such things are attributed, as has been stated, to Jehovah or the Lord has been explained in Volume One, in 223, 245, 589, 592, 696, 735, 1093, 1683, 1874. The idea that such things come from the Lord is as remote from the truth as good is from evil, or heaven from hell, or what is Divine from what is of the devil. Evil, hell, and the devil do those things, and in no way the Lord who is mercy itself and good itself. But because those things do seem to come from Him, for reasons presented in the paragraphs just quoted, they are attributed to Him.

[6] From the wording of this verse, 'Jehovah rained from Jehovah out of heaven', it seems in the sense of the letter as though there were two of Them - one on earth, and one in heaven. But the internal sense teaches how this matter is to be understood, namely as follows: The Jehovah mentioned first means the Lord's Divine Human and His Holy proceeding, which in this chapter are meant by 'the two men', while the Jehovah mentioned second means the Divine itself, called the Father, who is referred to in the previous chapter. The internal sense also teaches that this Trinity exists within the Lord, as He Himself says in John,

He who has seen Me has seen the Father. Believe Me that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me. John 14:9-11.

And referring to the Holy proceeding He says in the same gospel,

The Paraclete will not speak from Himself. He will receive it from what is Mine and declare it to you. John 16:13-15.

Thus there is but one Jehovah even though two are mentioned here. Two are mentioned because all laws of order spring from the Lord's Divine itself, Divine Human, and Holy proceeding.

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