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1 IL Signore parlò ancora a Mosè, dicendo:

2 Quest’è la legge intorno al lebbroso, nel giorno della sua purificazione: Sia menato al sacerdote.

3 Ed esca il sacerdote fuor del campo; e se, avendo riguardato colui, ecco, la piaga della lebbra è guarita nel lebbroso;

4 comandi che si prendano, per colui che si purificherà, due uccelletti vivi, mondi, e del legno di cedro, e dello scarlatto, e dell’isopo.

5 Poi comandi il sacerdote, che si scanni l’uno degli uccelletti, versandone il sangue dentro un testo, sopra dell’acqua viva.

6 Ed egli stesso prenda l’uccelletto vivo, e il legno di cedro, e lo scarlatto, e l’isopo; e intinga quelle cose, insieme con l’uccelletto vivo, nel sangue dell’uccelletto scannato sopra l’acqua viva.

7 E spruzzine sette volte colui che si purifica della lebbra; e, dopo averlo così purificato, lascine andar libero l’uccelletto vivo, su per li campi.

8 E colui che si purifica lavi i suoi vestimenti, e radasi tutti i peli, e lavisi con acqua; e sarà netto; poi potrà entrar nel campo; ma dimori sette giorni fuor del suo padiglione.

9 E al settimo giorno radasi tutti i peli, il capo, e la barba, e le ciglia degli occhi; in somma, radasi tutti i peli, e lavi i suoi vestimenti; lavisi parimente con acqua le carni; e sarà netto.

10 E l’ottavo giorno appresso, prenda due agnelli senza difetto, e un’agnella d’un anno, senza difetto, e tre decimi di fior di farina stemperata con olio, per offerta di panatica, e un log d’olio.

11 E presenti il sacerdote, che farà la purificazione, colui che si purificherà, insieme con quelle cose, davanti al Signore, all’entrata del Tabernacolo della convenenza.

12 Poi prenda il sacerdote l’uno degli agnelli, e offeriscalo per la colpa; insieme col log dell’olio; e dimeni quelle cose per offerta davanti al Signore.

13 Poi scanni l’agnello nel luogo dove si scannano i sacrificii per lo peccato, e gli olocausti, in luogo santo; perciocchè, come il sacrificio per lo peccato appartiene al sacerdote, così ancora gli appartiene il sacrificio per la colpa; è cosa santissima.

14 E prenda il sacerdote del sangue del sacrificio per la colpa, e mettalo in sul tenerume dell’orecchia destra di colui che si purificherà, e in sul dito grosso della sua man destra, e in sul dito grosso del suo piè destro.

15 Poi prenda il sacerdote dell’olio di quel log, e versine sopra la palma della sua man sinistra.

16 E intinga il dito della sua man destra, in quell’olio che sarà sopra la palma della sua man sinistra; e col dito spruzzi di quell’olio sette volte nel cospetto del Signore.

17 E del rimanente dell’olio, ch’egli avrà in su la palma della mano, mettane in sul tenerume dell’orechhia destra di colui che si purificherà; e in sul dito grosso della sua man destra e in sul dito grosso del suo piè destro, sopra il sangue del sacrificio per la colpa.

18 E metta il sacerdote il rimasto dell’olio, ch’egli avrà in mano, in sul capo di colui che si purificherà. E così faccia il sacerdote il purgamento per lui, davanti al Signore.

19 Poi offerisca il sacerdote il sacrificio per lo peccato; e faccia il purgamento per colui che si purificherà della sua immondizia; e poi appresso scanni l’olocausto.

20 E offerisca l’olocausto, insieme con l’offerta di panatica, sopra l’Altare. Così faccia il sacerdote purgamento per colui, ed egli sarà netto.

21 Ma, se colui è povero, e non può fornire quelle cose, prenda un agnello per sacrificio per la colpa, per essere offerto in offerta dimenata, per far purgamento per lui; e un decimo di fior di farina intrisa con olio, per offerta di panatica, e un log d’olio;

22 e due tortole, o due pippioni, secondo ch’egli potrà fornire; de’ quali l’uno sarà per sacrificio per lo peccato, e l’altro per olocausto.

23 E porti quelle cose al sacerdote, all’entrata del Tabernacolo della convenenza, davanti al Signore, l’ottavo giorno appresso la sua purificazione.

24 E prenda il sacerdote l’agnello per sacrificio per la colpa, e il log d’olio; e dimenti quelle cose davanti al Signore, in offerta dimenata.

25 Poi scanni l’agnello del sacrificio per la colpa, e prenda del sangue di esso, e mettalo in sul tenerume dell’orecchia destra di colui che si purificherà, e in sul dito grosso della sua man destra, e in sul dito grosso del suo piè destro.

26 Poi versi di quell’olio in su la palma della sua man sinistra.

27 E col dito della sua man destra spruzzi il sacerdote di quell’olio, che egli avrà nella sua man sinistra, sette volte davanti al Signore.

28 Poi metta di quell’olio, ch’egli avrà sopra la palma della sua mano, in sul tenerume dell’orecchia destra di colui che si purificherà, e in sul dito grosso della sua man destra, e in sul dito grosso del suo piè destro, sopra il luogo dove sarà stato posto il sangue del sacrificio per la colpa.

29 Poi metta il sacerdote il rimanente di quell’olio, ch’egli avrà sopra la palma della sua mano, in sul capo di colui che si purificherà, per far purgamento per lui nel cospetto del Signore.

30 Poi sacrifichi l’una di quelle tortole, o l’uno di que’ pippioni, secondo che colui avrà potuto fornire.

31 Di quello ch’egli avrà potuto fornire, o tortole o pippioni, siane uno per sacrificio per lo peccato, e l’altro per olocausto, insieme con l’offerta di panatica. E così il sacerdote faccia il purgamento davanti al Signore per colui che si purificherà.

32 Quest’è la legge intorno a colui, in cui sarà stata piaga di lebbra, il quale non potrà fornire le cose suddette per la sua purificazione.

33 IL Signore parlò, oltre a ciò, a Mosè e ad Aaronne, dicendo:

34 Quando voi sarete entrati nel paese di Canaan, il quale io vi do per possessione, se io mando piaga di lebbra in alcuna casa del paese della vostra possessione;

35 venga colui di cui sarà la casa, e significhilo al sacerdote, dicendo: Egli appare come una piaga di lebbra nella mia casa.

36 Allora comandi il sacerdote che si sgomberi la casa, avanti ch’egli vi entri per riguardar la piaga, acciocchè non sia immondo tutto ciò che sarà in quella casa; dopo questo, entrivi il sacerdote, per riguardar la casa.

37 E se, avendo riguardata la piaga, vedrà che vi sia piaga nelle pareti della casa, fossatelle verdeggianti, o rosseggianti, che appariscano più basse della parete;

38 escasene il sacerdote fuor della casa, all’uscio di essa, e serri la casa per sette giorni.

39 E il settimo giorno appresso, tornivi il sacerdote; e se, riguardandola, ecco, la piaga si è allargata per le pareti della casa;

40 comandi che si cavino le pietre, nelle quali sarà la piaga, e che si gittino fuor della città in luogo immondo.

41 E faccia rader lo smalto della casa di dentro d’ogni intorno, e versisi la polvere dello smalto che si sarà raso, fuor della città, in luogo immondo.

42 Poi prendansi dell’altre pietre, e ficchinsi in luogo di quelle; prendasi ancora dell’altro smalto, e smaltisene la casa.

43 Ma, se la piaga torna a germogliar nella casa, dopo che ne saranno state cavate le pietre, e dopo che la casa sarà stata rasa, e di nuovo smaltata;

44 e il sacerdote, entrandovi, e riguardando, ecco, la piaga si è allargata nella casa; è lebbra rodente nella casa; la casa è immonda.

45 Perciò disfacciasi quella casa, le sue pietre, e il suo legname, e tutto lo smalto di essa; e portinsi quelle cose fuor della città, in luogo immondo.

46 E chi sarà entrato in quella casa, in tutti i giorni ch’ella sarà serrata, sia immondo infino alla sera.

47 E chi sarà giaciuto in quelle casa, lavi i suoi vestimenti; parimente, chi avrà mangiato in essa, lavi i suoi vestimenti.

48 Ma se pure, essendovi entrato il sacerdote, e avendo riguardato, ecco, la piaga non si è allargata nella casa, dopo che è stata smaltata; dichiari quella casa netta; conciossiachè la piaga sia guarita.

49 Poi prenda, per purificar la casa, due uccelletti, e del legno di cedro, e dello scarlatto, e dell’isopo.

50 E scanni l’uno degli uccelletti; versandone il sangue dentro un testo, sopra dell’acqua viva.

51 Poi prenda il legno di cedro e l’isopo, e lo scarlatto, e l’uccelletto vivo, e intinga quelle cose nel sangue dell’uccelletto scannato, e nell’acqua viva; e spruzzi la casa sette volte.

52 E così purifichi la casa col sangue dell’uccelletto, e con l’acqua viva, e con l’uccelletto vivo, e col legno di cedro, e con l’isopo, e con lo scarlatto;

53 poi lascine andar libero l’uccelletto vivo, fuor della città, su per li campi; e così faccia il purgamento per la casa; ed ella sarà netta.

54 Quest’è la legge intorno a qualunque piaga di lebbra, o tigna;

55 e intorno alla lebbra di vestimento o di casa;

56 e intorno a tumore, o bolla, o tacca tralucente;

57 per insegnare in qual giorno alcuna cosa è immonda, e in quale è netta. Quest’è la legge intorno alla lebbra.

   


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#417

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417. To this I will append the following account:

I saw in the spiritual world two flocks, one a flock of goats, and the other a flock of sheep. I wondered who they were, since I knew that animals seen in the spiritual world are not really animals, but are correspondent forms of the affections and consequent thoughts of the local inhabitants. Therefore I drew nearer, and as I approached, the likenesses of animals disappeared, and instead of them I saw people. It also became clear that those who formed the flock of goats were people who had confirmed themselves in the doctrine of justification by faith alone, and that those who formed the flock of sheep were people who believed that charity and faith are inseparable, as goodness and truth are inseparable.

[2] I then spoke with those who had looked like goats, and I said, "Why are you gathered together like this?"

They were mostly clergy, who vaunted themselves on account of their reputation for learning, because they knew the arcana of justification by faith alone. They said they had assembled to convene a council, because they had heard that the saying of Paul in Romans 3:28, that "a person is justified by faith apart from the deeds of the law," was not rightly understood, since by deeds of the law Paul meant the deeds prescribed by Mosaic law, which existed for Jews.

"We see this clearly," they said, "also from Paul's words to Peter, whom he rebuked for Judaizing, even though Peter knew that no one is justified by the works of the law (Galatians 2:14-16). Moreover, Paul distinguishes between the law of faith and the law of works, 1 and between Jews and gentiles, 2 or between circumcision and uncircumcision; 3 and by circumcision he means Judaism, as he does everywhere else. He also then concludes with these words: 'Do we then abolish the law by faith? Not at all. Rather we establish the law.' He says all of this in one series of verses, in Romans 3:27-31.

"In addition, he says as well in the preceding chapter, 'not the hearers of the law will be justified in the sight of God, but the doers of the law will be justified' (Romans 2:13). Furthermore, that God will render to each one according to his deeds (Romans 2:6). And still further, 'We must all appear before the judgment seat of the Christ, that each one may give an account of the things done in the body..., whether good or evil' (2 Corinthians 5:10). Not to mention many other statements in Paul's writing, which make it apparent that Paul rejected faith apart from good works, just as much as James (James 2:17-26).

[3] "That Paul meant the deeds prescribed by Mosaic law, which existed for Jews - this we have further confirmed from the fact that all the statutes for the Jews in the books of Moses are called the Law, being thus works prescribed by the Law, which we see to be so from the following statements:

This is the law of the grain offering. (Leviticus 6:14ff.)

This is the law of the trespass offering... (Leviticus 7:1, 7)

This is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings... (Leviticus 7:11ff.)

This is the law of the burnt offering, the grain offering, the sin offering and trespass offering, the consecrations, and the sacrifice of the peace offerings... (Leviticus 7:37)

This is the law regarding animals and birds... (Leviticus 11:46f.)

This is the law regarding her who gives birth, to a son or a daughter. (Leviticus 12:7)

This is the law regarding a leprous plague... (Leviticus 13:59, cf. 14:2, 14:32, 14:54, 14:57)

This is the law regarding one suffering a discharge of fluid... (Leviticus 15:32)

This is the law regarding jealousness... (Numbers 5:29-30)

This is the law for the Nazirite... (Numbers 6:13, 21)

This is the law (regarding cleanness). (Numbers 19:14)

This is... the law (regarding the red heifer). (Numbers 19:2)

(The law for a king.) (Deuteronomy 17:15-19)

"In fact," the speakers said, "the whole five books of Moses are called the Book of the Law, in Deuteronomy 31:9, 11-12, 26, and elsewhere."

To this they added also that they saw in Paul that the law in the Ten Commandments ought to be lived, and that it is fulfilled by charity, which is love for the neighbor (Romans 13:8-10), thus not by faith alone.

They said that this was why they had come together.

[4] In order not to disturb them, however, I withdrew, and at a distance then they looked again like goats, sometimes like ones lying down, and sometimes like ones standing, but turned away from the flock of sheep. They looked like goats lying down when they were deliberating, and like ones standing when they drew conclusions.

But I kept my eyes on their horns, and I was surprised to see that the horns on their foreheads appeared sometimes as though extending forward and upward, and sometimes curving back to the rear, and finally to be completely turned backward. At that they suddenly all turned then to face the flock of sheep, though they looked like goats.

I went over to them again, therefore, and asked what was happening now. They said they had concluded that faith alone produces the goods of charity called good works, as a tree produces fruit.

But then we heard a clap of thunder and saw a flash of lightning from above; and presently an angel appeared, standing between the two flocks, who cried out to the flock of sheep, "Do not listen to them! They have not abandoned their earlier faith, which teaches that God the Father took pity for the sake of the Son. That faith is not faith in the Lord. Nor is faith a tree. Rather a person is a tree. Only repent and turn to the Lord, and you will have faith. Before then faith is not faith having any life in it."

The goats with their horns turned backward then tried to approach the sheep, but the angel standing between them divided the sheep into two groups and said to those on the left, "Attach yourselves to the goats. But I tell you that a wolf is going to come that will carry them off, and you with them."

[5] However, after the two groups of sheep had been separated, and those on the left heard the angel's warning, they looked at each other and said, "Let's confer with our former comrades."

So then the group on the left addressed the one on the right, saying, "Why did you leave your pastors? Are not faith and charity inseparable, as a tree and its fruit are inseparable? For a tree continues on through the branch into the fruit. Take away anything from the branch that flows by an unbroken connection into the fruit, and will not the fruit perish? Ask our priests if that is not the case."

So then they asked, and the priests looked around at the rest, who winked to tell them to speak well. And after that they replied that such was the case. "Faith is preserved by its fruits," they said. But they would not say that faith is contained in the fruits.

[6] At that one of the priests among the sheep on the right rose and said, "They replied to you that such is the case, but still they tell their own flock that it is not the case, as they think otherwise."

The group on the right asked, therefore, how those priests think then. "Do they not teach as they think?"

"No," the priest replied. "They think that every good of charity that is called a good work, that a person does for his salvation or for the sake of eternal life, is not good but evil, because by the work the person is trying of himself to save himself, claiming for himself the righteousness and merit of Him who is the only Savior. And this is the case, they think, with every good work in which a person is conscious of his own will. Consequently among themselves they call good works done by a person of himself not blessings but curses, saying that they merit hell rather than heaven."

[7] However, those of the group on the left said, "You are telling lies about them. Do they not clearly in our presence preach charity and its works, which they call works of faith?"

But the priest replied, "You do not understand their preaching. Only a clergyman who is present pays attention and understands. They think only of moral charity and its civic and political goods, which they call goods of faith, but which are absolutely not. For an atheist can do the same things in the same way and give them the same appearance. Therefore they unanimously say that no one is saved by any works, but by faith alone.

"But let us illustrate this with analogies. They say that an apple tree produces apples; however, if a person does good deeds for his salvation, as the tree does apples by an unbroken connection, then the apples are rotten inside and full of worms. They say, too, that a grapevine produces grapes; but if a person were to produce spiritual goods as a grapevine does grapes, he would produce wild grapes."

[8] At that those of the group on the left asked in response, "What then is the nature of their goods of charity or good works, which are the fruits of faith?"

The priest replied that they are unseen, being within a person from the Holy Spirit, of which the person is totally unaware.

Responding, they said, "If a person is totally unaware of them, there must at least be some connection. Otherwise how can they be called works of faith? Perhaps those unfelt goods are then insinuated into the person's volitional works by some mediating influx, as by some affecting, influencing, inspiring, prodding or spurring of the will, by a silent perception in the thought and a resulting admonition, contrition, and thus conscience, and so by an impulse, an obedience to the Ten Commandments and the Word, either as a little child or as a wise adult, or by some other means like these."

But the priest replied, "No, they are not. Even if their proponents say that it comes about by such means because good works come about by faith, still they sew these up in their sermons with words whose result is to deny that they originate from faith. Some of them still teach such means, but as signs of faith, and not as its bonds with charity."

Some of those on the left nevertheless conceived of a connection by means of the Word, and they said, "Is there not thus a connection, that a person acts voluntarily in accord with the Word?"

But the priest replied, "That's not what they think. Rather they think it is formed simply by hearing the Word, thus not by understanding the Word, lest something enter perceptibly through the intellect into a person's thought and will. For they assert that everything in a person's volitional makeup is merit-seeking, and that in spiritual matters a person cannot undertake, will, think, understand, believe, do or cooperate in anything any more than a log.

"Still, however, the case is different with the influx of the Holy Spirit through faith into the discourses of preachers, because these are actions of the mouth and not actions of the body, and because by faith a person acts with God, but by charity with men."

[9] But when one of those on the left heard that a connection is formed simply by hearing the Word and not by understanding the Word, he said irately, "Is it then by an understanding of the Word gained from the Holy Spirit only, when a person in church turns away or sits as deaf as a post, or when he sleeps, or gained simply from some exhalation from the Word, the book? What could be more absurd?"

After that a man from the group on the right, who excelled the rest in judgment, asked to be heard, and speaking said, "I heard someone say, 'I have planted a vineyard. Now I will drink wine till I am drunk.' But someone else said, 'Will you drink wine from your glass with your right hand?' And the first one said, 'No. I will drink it from an unseen glass with an unseen hand.' So the second one said, 'Then you surely won't get drunk!'"

Then the same man said, "Only listen to me, please. I say to you, drink wine from the Word understood. Do you not know that the Lord embodies the Word? Does the Word not come from the Lord? Is He not therefore present in it? If then you do good in obedience to the Word, do you not do it from the Lord, in obedience to His utterance and will? And if you then look to the Lord, He Himself also will lead you and do the good, and do it through you, so that you do it as though of yourself. Who can say, if he does something for a king, in obedience to his utterance and will, 'I do this of myself, in compliance with my own utterance or command, by my own will?'"

Following that the priest turned to the clergy and said, "Ministers of God, do not lead the flock astray!"

[10] Hearing this, a large majority of the group on the left went back and joined the group on the right. Some of the clergy also then said, "We have heard something we have not heard before. We are pastors. We will not abandon the sheep." And they went back with them and said, "That man spoke a true word. Who can say, if he acts in obedience to the Word, thus from the Lord, in obedience to His utterance and will, 'I do this of myself'? Who says, if he does something for a king, in obedience to his utterance and will, 'I am doing this of myself'?

"We see now the Divine providence in why the conjunction of faith and works acknowledged by the ecclesiastical body has not been found. It could not be found, because it cannot be imparted; for that faith is not faith in the Lord who embodies the Word, and so is not a faith derived from the Word."

But the rest of the priests went away, and waving their caps they cried, "Faith alone, faith alone! It will yet survive!"

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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.