Genesi 10:12
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 # 1163
1163. That “Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan,” were so many nations, by which in the internal sense are signified knowledges, memory-knowledges, and rituals that are of faith separated from charity, may be seen from the Word, where these nations are frequently mentioned; for such things are there signified by them; that is to say, by “Cush,” or “Ethiopia,” are signified the interior knowledges of the Word, whereby such men confirm false principles; by “Mizraim,” or “Egypt,” memory-knowledges or various matters of memory, whereby men desire to explore the mysteries of faith, and from them confirm principles of falsity; by “Put,” or “Lybia,” knowledges from the literal sense of the Word, by which in like manner they confirm false principles; and by “Canaan,” or “the Canaanites,” rituals, or the things of external worship separated from internal. All these, when separated from charity, are called “sons of Ham.” By the same nations are also signified simply knowledges and memory-knowledges; by “Cush,” the interior knowledges of the Word; by “Egypt,” memory-knowledges; by “Put,” knowledges from the literal sense of the Word. This is the reason why they are taken-as may be seen from the following passages-in both a bad and a good sense.
