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Domenica, 5 maggio 2024 - Beato Nunzio Sulprizio ( Letture di oggi)

Zechariah 4


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1 Then the angel who spoke with me returned and awakened me, like a man awakened from his sleep.1 Et reversus est angelus qui loquebatur in me, et suscitavit me quasi virum qui suscitatur de somno suo.
2 "What do you see?" he asked me. "I see a lampstand all of gold, with a bowl at the top," I replied; "on it are seven lamps with their tubes,2 Et dixit ad me : Quid tu vides ? Et dixi : Vidi, et ecce candelabrum aureum totum, et lampas ejus super caput ipsius, et septem lucernæ ejus super illud, et septem infusoria lucernis quæ erant super caput ejus.
3 and beside it are two olive trees, one on the right and the other on the left."3 Et duæ olivæ super illud : una a dextris lampadis, et una a sinistris ejus.
4 Then I said to the angel who spoke with me, "What are these things, my lord?"4 Et respondi, et aio ad angelum qui loquebatur in me, dicens : Quid sunt hæc, domine mi ?
5 And the angel who spoke with me replied, "Do you not know what these things are?" "No, my lord," I answered.5 Et respondit angelus qui loquebatur in me, et dixit ad me : Numquid nescis quid sunt hæc ? Et dixi : Non, domine mi.
6 Then he said to me, "This is the LORD'S message to Zerubbabel: Not by an army, nor by might, but by my spirit, says the LORD of hosts.6 Et respondit, et ait ad me, dicens : Hoc est verbum Domini ad Zorobabel, dicens : Non in exercitu, nec in robore, sed in spiritu meo, dicit Dominus exercituum.
7 What are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you are but a plain. He shall bring out the capstone amid exclamations of 'Hail, Hail' to it."7 Quis tu, mons magne, coram Zorobabel ? In planum : et educet lapidem primarium, et exæquabit gratiam gratiæ ejus.
8 This word of the LORD then came to me:8 Et factum est verbum Domini ad me, dicens :
9 The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundations of this house, and his hands shall finish it; then you shall know that the LORD of hosts has sent me to you.9 Manus Zorobabel fundaverunt domum istam, et manus ejus perficient eam : et scietis quia Dominus exercituum misit me ad vos.
10 For even they who were scornful on that day of small beginnings shall rejoice to see the select stone in the hands of Zerubbabel. These seven facets are the eyes of the LORD that range over the whole earth.10 Quis enim despexit dies parvos ? Et lætabuntur, et videbunt lapidem stanneum in manu Zorobabel. Septem isti oculi sunt Domini, qui discurrunt in universam terram.
11 I then asked him, "What are these two olive trees at each side of the lampstand?"11 Et respondi, et dixi ad eum : Quid sunt duæ olivæ istæ, ad dexteram candelabri, et ad sinistram ejus ?
12 And again I asked, "What are the two olive tufts which freely pour out fresh oil through the two golden channels?"12 Et respondi secundo, et dixi ad eum : Quid sunt duæ spicæ olivarum quæ sunt juxta duo rostra aurea in quibus sunt suffusoria ex auro ?
13 "Do you not know what these are?" he said to me. "No, my lord," I answered him.13 Et ait ad me, dicens : Numquid nescis quid sunt hæc ? Et dixi : Non, domine mi.
14 He said, "These are the two anointed who stand by the LORD of the whole earth."14 Et dixit : Isti sunt duo filii olei, qui assistunt Dominatori universæ terræ.