Jonah 3:9
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.
Forty
'Forty' represents completeness because 'four' and 'ten' both mean what is complete. Forty is the product of four and ten. Compound numbers have a meaning similar to the simple numbers which compose them, and all numbers in the Word represent spiritual realities.
(Odkazy: Arcana Coelestia 9437; Exodus 24:18)
The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms # 244
244. Internal Meaning of Zechariah, Chapter 12
1 The Lord forms the church. (11)
2 Nothing of the doctrine of truth will be in the church, therefore they will shun it. (3)
4 There is no understanding of truth any longer, except with those who are in the Word and of the new church. (3, 11)
5 Then they will learn the good of doctrine from the Lord. (11)
6-7 Then the Lord will destroy all falsities by the truths of the Word, lest doctrine should teach something else. (11)
8 Then the church will be in doctrine respecting the Lord. (11)
9 Then all men or all things that are contrary to that doctrine will be destroyed. (3)
10 Then there will be a new church from the Lord. (11)
10-14 All things and every single thing of the church will mourn. (3, 15)
