Genesi 19:32
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 #2440
2440. Verse 23. The sun was gone forth upon the earth, and Lot came to Zoar. “The sun was gone forth upon the earth,” signifies the last period, which is called the Last Judgment; “and Lot came to Zoar,” signifies that those are saved who are in the affection of truth.
Arcana Coelestia #101
101. That the Lord is the “east” also appears from the Word, as in Ezekiel:
He brought me to the gate, even the gate that looketh the way of the east, and behold the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east; and His voice was as the voice of many waters, and the earth shone with His glory (Ezekiel 43:1-2, 4).
It was in consequence of the Lord’s being the “east” that a holy custom prevailed in the representative Jewish Church, before the building of the temple, of turning their faces toward the east when they prayed.
