Esodo 25:39
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.
Pure
To be "pure" in the Bible means -- unsurprisingly -- to be devoid of evil. Thus all the washing for purification prescribed in the Laws of Moses was not just a stab at public hygiene, but was symbolic of the state we should try to achieve when we approach the Lord, setting aside our evil desires and focusing on the good we want to attain. In some ways most of us still reflect this symbolism in the fact that we wash ourselves and wear nice, clean clothes to church, purity on the outside hopefully reflecting a degree of purity on the inside. Other uses of "pure" in the Bible are closely connected with a specific material: "pure gold" is common; "pure frankincense" and "pure linen" are among other uses. In these cases "pure" indicates that the spiritual quality being described -- the quality symbolized by the gold, or the frankincense, or the linen, etc. -- is genuine and authentic.
