Esodo 22:26
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.
Arcana Coelestia # 9205
9205. And I will kill you with the sword. That this signifies that they would deprive themselves of good and truth through falsities, is evident from the signification of “killing,” when said of such as defraud those who are in good and truth, and who are signified by “widows, orphans, and sojourners,” as being to deprive them of such things (that “to kill” denotes to deprive of spiritual life, see n. 3607, 6768, 8902); and from the signification of a “sword,” as being truth fighting and destroying falsity; and in the opposite sense, as being falsity fighting and destroying truth (n. 2799, 4499, 6353, 7102, 8294). Here therefore “to kill with the sword” denotes to deprive of goods and truths by means of falsities.
