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Genesi第49章

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1 POI Giacobbe chiamò i suoi figliuoli, e disse: Adunatevi, ed io vi dichiarerò ciò che vi avverrà nel tempo a venire.

2 Adunatevi e ascoltate, figliuoli di Giacobbe! Prestate udienza a Israele, vostro padre.

3 RUBEN, tu sei il mio primogenito, La mia possa, e il principio delle mie forze, Eccellente in dignità, ed eccellente in forza.

4 Tutto ciò è scolato come acqua; non aver la maggioranza! Perciocchè tu salisti in sul letto di tuo padre; Allora che tu contaminasti il mio letto, tutto ciò sparì.

5 SIMEONE e LEVI son fratelli; Le loro spade sono arme di violenza.

6 Non entri l’anima mia nel lor consiglio segreto; Non uniscasi la gloria mia alla lor raunanza; Perciocchè nella loro ira hanno uccisi uomini, E hanno a lor voglia spianato il muro.

7 Maledetta sia l’ira loro, perciocchè è stata violenta; E il furor loro, perciocchè è stato aspro; Io li dividerò per Giacobbe, E li spargerò per Israele.

8 GIUDA, te celebreranno i tuoi fratelli; La tua mano sarà sopra il collo de’ tuoi nemici; I figliuoli di tuo padre s’inchineranno a te;

9 Giuda è un leoncello; Figliuol mio, tu sei ritornato dalla preda; Quando egli si sarà chinato, e si sarà posto a giacere come un leone, Anzi come un gran leone, chi lo desterà?

10 Lo Scettro non sarà rimosso da Giuda, Nè il Legislatore d’infra i piedi di esso, Finchè non sia venuto colui al quale quello appartiene; E inverso lui sarà l’ubbidienza de’ popoli.

11 Egli lega il suo asinello alla vite, E al tralcio della vite nobile il figlio della sua asina; Egli lava il suo vestimento nel vino, E i suoi panni nel liquor delle uve.

12 Egli ha gli occhi rosseggianti per lo vino, E i denti bianchi per lo latte.

13 ZABULON abiterà nel porto de’ mari Egli sarà al porto delle navi; E il suo confine sarà fino a Sidon.

14 ISSACAR è un asino ossuto, Che giace fra due sbarre.

15 E avendo egli veduto che il riposo è cosa buona, E che il paese è ameno, Chinerà la spalla per portar la soma, E diverrà tributario.

16 DAN giudicherà il suo popolo, Come una delle tribù d’Israele.

17 Dan sarà una serpe in su la strada, Un colubro in sul sentiero, Il qual morde i pasturali del cavallo, Onde colui che lo cavalca cade indietro.

18 O Signore, io ho aspettata la tua salute.

19 Quant’è a GAD, schiere lo scorreranno; Ma egli in iscambio scorrerà altri.

20 Dal paese di ASER procederà la grascia della sua vittuaglia, Ed esso produrrà delizie reali.

21 NEFTALI è una cerva sciolta; Egli proferisce belle parole.

22 GIUSEPPE è un ramo di una vite fruttifera, Un ramo di una vite fruttifera appresso ad una fonte, I cui rampolli si distendono lungo il muro.

23 E benchè egli sia stato amaramente afflitto, E che degli arcieri l’abbiano saettato e nimicato;

24 Pur è dimorato l’arco suo nella sua forza; E le sue braccia e le sue mani si son rinforzate, Per l’aiuto del Possente di Giacobbe: Quindi egli è stato il pastore, la pietra d’Israele,

25 Ciò è proceduto dall’Iddio di tuo padre, il quale ancora ti aiuterà; E dall’Onnipotente, il quale ancora ti benedirà Delle benedizioni del cielo di sopra, Delle benedizioni dell’abisso che giace disotto, Delle benedizioni delle mammelle e della matrice.

26 Le benedizioni di tuo padre Hanno avanzate le benedizioni de’ miei genitori, E son giunte fino al sommo de’ colli eterni. Esse saranno sopra il capo di Giuseppe, E sopra la sommità del capo di lui, Ch’è stato messo da parte d’infra i suoi fratelli.

27 BENIAMINO è un lupo rapace; La mattina egli divorerà la preda, E in su la sera partirà le spoglie.

28 Tutti costoro sono i capi delle dodici tribù d’Israele; e questo è quello che il padre loro disse loro, quando il benedisse, benedicendo ciascuno di essi secondo la sua propria benedizione.

29 Poi comandò, e disse loro: Tosto sarò raccolto al mio popolo; seppellitemi coi miei padri, nella spelonca ch’è nel campo di Efron Hitteo;

30 nella spelonca, ch’è nel campo di Macpela, il quale è dirincontro a Mamre, nel paese di Cannan; la quale spelonca Abrahamo comperò da Efron Hitteo, insieme col campo, per possession di sepoltura.

31 Quivi fu seppellito Abrahamo e Sara, sua moglie; quivi fu seppellito Isacco e Rebecca, sua moglie; quivi ancora ho seppellita Lea.

32 L’acquisto di quel campo, e della spelonca ch’è in esso, fu fatto da’ figliuoli di Het.

33 E, dopo che Giacobbe ebbe finito di dar questi comandamenti a’ suoi figliuoli, ritrasse i piedi dentro al letto, e trapassò, e fu raccolto a’ 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 Revealed#20

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20. And makes us kings and priests. (1:6) This symbolically means, who grants those who are born from Him, that is, who are reborn or regenerated, to be governed by wisdom from Divine truths, and by love from Divine goods.

People know that in the Word the Lord is called a king and also a priest. He is called a king owing to His Divine wisdom, and a priest owing to His Divine love. People who are governed by wisdom from the Lord are consequently called children of the king, and also kings, while people who are governed by love from Him are called ministers and priests. For the wisdom and the love in them do not originate from them, and so are not theirs but the Lord's. It is these people who are therefore meant in the Word by kings and priests. Not that they are kings and priests, but that they have the Lord in them, and He causes them to be termed such.

Such people are called also children born of Him, children of the kingdom, children of the Father, and heirs - children born of Him in John 1:12-13ff.), children of the kingdom in Matthew 8:12; 13:38, children of their Father in heaven in Matthew 5:45, and heirs in Psalms 127:3, 1 Samuel 2:8, Matthew 25:34. And being heirs, children of the kingdom, and children born of the Lord as their Father, they are therefore called kings and priests. Moreover, in Revelation 3:21 it is also said that they will sit with the Lord on His throne.

[2] The whole of heaven has been divided into two kingdoms - the spiritual kingdom and the celestial kingdom. The spiritual kingdom is what is called the Lord's kingship, and because all who are in it are governed by wisdom founded on truths, therefore it is they who are meant by the kings that the Lord will make those people who are governed by wisdom from Him. The celestial kingdom, on the other hand, is what is called the Lord's priesthood, and because all who are in it are governed by love arising from goodness, therefore it is they who are meant by the priests that the Lord will make those people who are governed by love from Him. The Lord's church on earth is likewise divided into two kingdoms. Regarding these two kingdoms, see nos. 24, 226 in the book Heaven and Hell, published in London, 1758.

[3] Someone who does not know the spiritual meaning of kings and priests may be deluded in regard to many things said in the prophets and in the book of Revelation about them. For example, in regard to these statements in the prophets:

The sons of foreigners shall build up your walls, and their kings shall minister to you... You shall suck the milk of gentiles, even the breasts of kings you shall suck, that you may know that I, Jehovah, am your Savior and your Redeemer... (Isaiah 60:10, 16)

Kings shall be your foster fathers, and their princesses your wet nurses. (Isaiah 49:23)

Also elsewhere, as in Genesis 49:20; Psalms 2:10; Isaiah 14:9; 24:21; 52:15; Jeremiah 2:26; 4:9; 49:3; Lamentations 2:6, 9; Ezekiel 7:26-27; Hosea 3:4; Zephaniah 1:8. Kings there do not mean kings, but people who are governed by Divine truths from the Lord, and abstractly, Divine truths themselves, from which comes wisdom.

"The king of the south" and "the king of the north" who waged war with each other in Daniel 11 do not mean kings either, but the king of the south means people who are governed by truths, and the king of the north people who are caught up in falsities.

[4] Likewise in the book of Revelation, which many times mentions kings, as in the following passages:

The sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up, so that the way of the kings from the rising of the sun might be prepared. (Revelation 16:12)

(With) the great harlot who sits on many waters... the kings of the earth committed whoredom... (Revelation 17:1-2)

...of the wine of the wrath of (Babylon's) whoredom all the nations have drunk, and the kings of the earth have committed whoredom with her... (Revelation 18:3)

And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war with Him who sat on the (white) horse... (Revelation 19:19)

And the nations that are saved shall walk in His light, and the kings of the earth shall bring their glory and honor into (the New Jerusalem). (Revelation 21:24)

Elsewhere also, as in Revelation 16:14; 17:9-14; 18:9-10. The kings there means people who are governed by truths, and in an opposite sense, people caught up in falsities, and abstractly, truths or falsities themselves. The whoredom of Babylon with the kings of the earth means the falsification of the truth of the church. Obviously Babylon, or the woman who sat on the scarlet beast, did not commit whoredom with kings, but rather falsified truths of the Word.

[5] It is apparent from this that the Lord's going to make people who are wise from Him kings does not mean that they will be kings, but that they will be wise. The reality of this is also something that enlightened reason sees.

Likewise in the following:

You have made us kings and priests to our God, that we may reign on the earth. (Revelation 5:10)

That by king the Lord meant truth is apparent from His words to Pilate:

Pilate... said to Him, "Are You a king then?"

Jesus answered, "As you have said, because I am a king. For this I was born, and for this I have come into the world, to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice."

Pilate said to Him, "What is truth?" (John 18:27, 38)

To bear witness to the truth is to be Himself the embodiment of truth. And because He called Himself a king by virtue of it, Pilate said, "What is truth?" - which is to say, "Is truth a king?

As for priests, we will see in later explanations that they symbolize people who are governed by the goodness of love, and abstractly, goods of love themselves.

  
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Many thanks to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and to Rev. N.B. Rogers, translator, for the permission to use this translation.