Esodo 23:28
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 # 9317
9317. 'You shall not bow down to their gods' means that falsities arising from evil must not be worshipped. This is clear from the meaning of 'bowing down' as adoration and worship, dealt with in 4689; and from the meaning of 'the gods of the nations' as falsities arising from evil, dealt with in 4544, 7873, 8867, 9283. Falsities arising from evil are worshipped when worship is performed in accord with teachings concocted out of falsified truths and adulterated forms of good. This happens when dominion and gain are thought of as the end in view, and truths from the Word as the means.
