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Geremia 45

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1 LA parola che il profeta Geremia pronunziò a Baruc, figliuolo di Neria, quando scriveva quelle parole nel libro, di bocca di Geremia, l’anno quarto di Gioiachim, figliuol di Giosia, re di Giuda dicendo:

2 Così ha detto il Signore, l’Iddio d’Israele, a te, o Baruc:

3 Tu hai detto: Ahi lasso me! perciocchè il Signore ha sopraggiunta tristizia al mio dolore; io mi affanno ne’ miei sospiri, e non trovo alcun riposo.

4 Digli così tu: Così ha detto il Signore: Ecco, io distruggo ciò che io avea edificato, e divello quello che io avea piantato, cioè, tutto questo paese.

5 E tu ti cercheresti delle grandezze! non cercarle; perciocchè ecco, io fo venir del male sopra ogni carne, dice il Signore; ma io ti darò l’anima tua per ispoglia, in tutti i luoghi ove tu andrai.

   


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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Flesh

  
Still Life with Ham by Ferenc Ujházy

Flesh has several meanings just in its most obvious form. It can mean all living creatures as when the Lord talks about the flood "destroying all flesh"(Genesis 7:21), or it can mean all of mankind (Genesis 6:3), or it can mean something soft and yielding such as the heart of flesh to replace the stony heart (Ezekiel 11:19) But spiritually it means the loves that dwell in the will of a person, and seem to belong to that person, to be that person. This person may be one who has not started to regenerate (or never will), or one who is in the middle of the process, or one who is near the end. In the highest sense flesh means the loves that are in the Lord's will, which are divine. This meaning is clear in the Lord's words in the gospel of John (John 6:53-56).

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Arcana Coelestia #8410

Funda lesi Sigaba

  
Yiya esigabeni / 10837  
  

8410. 'Eating bread to the full!' means that in that situation they enjoyed the good of lower pleasures, as much as they wished to have. This is clear from the meaning of 'eating' as making one's own, dealt with in 3168, 3513 (end), 3596, 4745, and also as enjoyment, 7849; from the meaning of 'bread' as the good of heavenly life, and in the contrary sense the good of natural life separated from heavenly, thus the good of lower pleasures (in the spiritual sense 'bread' means the chief thing that nourishes the soul and maintains its spiritual life, that chief thing being the good of love, as heaven's life demonstrates, which consists wholly of that good. But in the contrary sense 'bread' is used to mean the chief thing that nourishes those in hell and sustains their life, that chief thing being the evil of self-love and love of the world, as hell's life demonstrates, which consists wholly in that evil. To those in hell that evil is good, for to them nothing is more delightful or sweeter; and it is this that is meant here by the good of lower pleasures); and from the meaning of 'to the full' as, as much as they wished to have, since the will is what is filled with good if people are good, or with evil if they are evil.

  
Yiya esigabeni / 10837  
  

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