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Ezechiele第47章

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1 POI egli mi rimenò all’entrata della Casa; ed ecco, delle acque uscivano di sotto alla soglia della Casa, verso il Levante; perciocchè la Casa era verso il Levante; e quelle acque scendevano disotto, dal lato destro della Casa, dalla parte meridionale dell’altare.

2 Poi egli mi menò fuori, per la via della porta settentrionale, e mi fece girare per la via di fuori, traendo verso il Levante; ed ecco, quelle acque sorgevano dal lato destro.

3 Quando quell’uomo uscì verso il Levante, egli avea in mano una cordicella, e misurò mille cubiti, e mi fece valicar quelle acque; ed esse mi giungevano solo alle calcagna.

4 Poi misurò altri mille cubiti, e mi fece valicar quelle acque; ed esse mi giungevano fino alle ginocchia. Poi misurò altri mille cubiti, e mi fece valicar quelle acque; ed esse mi giungevano fino a’ lombi.

5 Poi misurò altri mille cubiti, e quelle acque erano un torrente, il quale io non poteva valicare co’ piedi; perciocchè le acque erano cresciute tanto ch’erano acque che conveniva passare a nuoto; un torrente che non si poteva guadare.

6 Allora egli mi disse: Hai tu veduto, figliuol d’uomo? Poi mi menò più innanzi, e mi fece ritornare alla riva del torrente.

7 E quando vi fui tornato, ecco un grandissimo numero d’alberi in su la riva del torrente di qua e di là.

8 Ed egli mi disse: Quest’acque hanno il lor corso verso il confine orientale del paese, e scendono nella pianura, ed entrano nel mare; e quando saranno nel mare, le acque di esso saranno rendute sane.

9 Ed avverrà che ogni animale rettile vivente, dovunque verranno que’ due torrenti, viverà; e il pesce vi sarà in grandissima copia; quando quest’acque saranno venute là, le altre saranno rendute sane; e ogni animale viverà, dove quel torrente sarà venuto.

10 Avverrà parimente che presso di esso mare staranno pescatori; da En-ghedi fino ad En-eglaim, sarà un luogo da stendervi reti da pescare; il pesce di que’ luoghi sarà, secondo le sue specie, in grandissimo numero, come il pesce del mar grande.

11 Le paludi d’esso, e le sue lagune non saranno rendute sane; saranno abbandonate a salsuggine.

12 E presso al torrente, in su la riva d’esso, di qua e di là, cresceranno alberi fruttiferi d’ogni maniera; le cui frondi non si appasseranno, ed il cui frutto non verrà giammai meno; a’ lor mesi produrranno i lor frutti primaticci; perciocchè le acque di quello usciranno del santuario; e il frutto loro sarà per cibo, e le lor frondi per medicamento.

13 COSI ha detto il Signore Iddio: Questi sono i confini del paese, il quale voi spartirete per eredità alle dodici tribù d’Israele, avendone Giuseppe due parti.

14 E tutti, l’uno al par dell’altro, possederete quel paese, del quale io alzai la mano, che io lo darei a’ padri vostri; ed esso paese vi scaderà per eredità.

15 Questi sono adunque i confini del paese: Dal lato settentrionale, dal mar grande, traendo verso Hetlon, finchè si giunge in Sedad:

16 Hamat, Berota, Sibraim, che è fra i confini di Damasco, e i confini di Hamat; Haser-hatticon, che è a’ confini di Hauran.

17 Così i confini saranno dal mare, Haser-enon, confine di Damasco, e lungo il Settentrione, onde il confine sarà Hamat. E questo sarà il lato settentrionale.

18 E il lato orientale sarà d’infra Hauran, e Damasco, e passerà fra Galaad, e il paese d’Israele lungo il Giordano. Misurate dal confine fino al mare orientale. E questo sarà il lato orientale.

19 E il lato meridionale, di verso l’Austro, sarà da Tamar fino alle acque delle contese di Cades, lungo il torrente fino al mar grande. E questo sarà il lato meridionale, di verso l’Austro.

20 E il lato occidentale sarà il mar grande, dal confine del paese, fin dirincontro all’entrata di Hamat. E questo sarà il lato occidentale.

21 E voi spartirete fra voi questo paese, secondo le tribù d’Israele.

22 Or dividetelo in eredità fra voi, e i forestieri che dimoreranno nel mezzo di voi, i quali avranno generati figliuoli nel mezzo di voi; e sienvi quelli come i natii d’infra i figliuoli d’Israele; ed entrino con voi in parte dell’eredità, fra le tribù d’Israele.

23 Date al forestiere la sua eredità, nella tribù, nella quale egli dimorerà, dice il Signore Iddio.

   


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#9031

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9031. 'And thoroughly cure him' means restoration, that is to say, through explanation; for if statements in the literal sense of the Word are looked at on a more internal level, all are in agreement. The situation here is as it is with statements in the Word which speak of the sun's rising or setting, though in reality it neither rises nor sets. However, it presents the appearance of doing so to inhabitants on earth, because of the earth's daily rotation on its axis. This natural truth lies hidden within the former, which accords with the appearance presented to the eyes. If the truth had been stated in the Word contrary to that appearance, the common people would not have understood it; and what the common people do not understand they do not believe either. It is similar with the Sun of heaven, which is the Lord; this too is said to rise. But it is said to rise in the heart when a person is being regenerated, and also when he is governed by the good of love and faith; and it is said to set when a person is immersed in evil and in falsity arising from it. But in reality the Lord is always where the sun is rising, for which reason also He is called the Sunrise or the East, and never where it is setting. Nor does He turn away from anyone; rather a person turns away from Him, which is the reason for the appearance that the Lord turns His face away, and even brings about what is ill. Therefore also such a thing is said of Him in the Word; and that too is a truth, though it is an apparent truth, and so does not conflict with the former. From all this one may now see what 'thoroughly curing' means in the internal sense, namely the restoration of spiritual truth, which is brought about by correct explanation of factual truth, or truth belonging to the literal sense of the Word.

[2] The situation is just the same with every truth that belongs to the literal sense. In natural light, which a person who perceives things on a sensory level possesses, that truth is seen as it is actually stated in the Word. For the literal sense is natural and is for those who perceive things on a sensory level. But when the same truth is presented in the light of heaven it is seen according to the internal sense; for this sense is spiritual and is for those whose perception lies on a heavenly level, because the things that belong to natural light vanish in the light of heaven. Natural light is like gloom or like a cloud, but heavenly light is like the glory and brightness after the cloud has been removed. Therefore also the literal sense of the Word is called 'a cloud' and the internal sense 'the glory', see Preface to Genesis 18, and 4391, 5922, 6343, 8106, 8443, 8781.

[3] The reason why 'thoroughly curing' means restoring in the spiritual sense is that 'sickness' and 'illness' mean poor health of the internal man. The internal man is in poor health when its life, which is spiritual life, is sick, that is, when the person turns aside from truth to falsity and from good to evil. When this happens that life is sick; and when the person turns away completely from truth and good that life dies. But its death is called spiritual death, which is damnation. This being the situation with the life of the internal man, such things as constitute sicknesses and death in the natural world refer, when spoken of in the Word, to sicknesses of spiritual life and to the death of that life. So too with curings or healings from sickness, as in Isaiah,

Jehovah strikes Egypt striking and curing, as a consequence of which they turn themselves towards Jehovah; and He will be entreated by them, and He will cure them. Isaiah 19:22.

In the same prophet,

But He was pierced because of our transgressions, bruised because of our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon Him, and by His wounds we are cured. 1 Isaiah 53:5.

These words refer to the Lord.

[4] In Jeremiah,

Return, O perverse children, I will cure you of backsliding. 2 Jeremiah 3:22.

In the same prophet,

Behold, I will bring curing and remedy to it; 3 and I will cure them and reveal to them the abundance of peace, and truth. Jeremiah 33:6.

In the same prophet,

Go up to Gilead, and take balm, O virgin daughter of Egypt! In vain you have multiplied medicaments; there is no curing for you. Jeremiah 46:11.

And in Ezekiel,

Beside the river there is rising up upon its bank, on this side and on that, [every] tree for food, whose leaf does not fall, and whose fruit does not fail it is reborn monthly, for its waters flow out from the sanctuary, wherefore its fruit is for food, and its leaf for medicaments. Ezekiel 47:12.

'Fruit for food' stands for the good of love and charity, which serves to nourish spiritual life, and 'leaf for medicaments' for the truths of faith which serve to refresh and restore that life. For the meaning of 'fruit' as the good of love and charity, see 3146, 7690; and for the meaning of 'leaf' as the truth of faith, 885.

[5] Since sicknesses and illnesses, also curings and medicaments, mentioned in the Word do not refer to natural life but to another kind of life distinct and separate from natural life, it is evident to anyone who ponders on the matter for a while that a person possesses another kind of life, which belongs to his internal man. Those who think materialistically of the life a person has do not believe that he has any life other than that of the body which is the life of the external or natural man. They wonder what the life of the internal man may be, indeed what the internal man may be. If they are told that this life is the life of faith and charity, and that the internal man is the person's spirit which lives after death, and which in essence is the real person, they wonder all the more. And those of them who live solely for the body and not for the soul, thus who are altogether natural people, understand nothing of what they are told about the life of faith and charity or about the internal man. For when they think, they see things altogether in natural light and not at all in spiritual light, on account of which also after death their thought remains materialistic. They live then 'in the shadow of death', that is, steeped in falsities arising from evil; they are in utter darkness and are blind to the light of heaven.

脚注:

1. literally, and in His wound curing has been given to us

2. literally, cure your turnings away

3. literally, I will cause curing and remedy to go up to it

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