Genesi 9:24
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＃787
787. 'The flood' means the falsities which continued to inundate the Church. This too follows on from what has been pointed out above, for the flood or deluge was nothing else than a flood of falsities. Previously, in verse 6 'a flood of waters' meant temptation, as was shown at that point, and that deluge also is one of falsities which evil spirits at that time activate with man. The present verse refers to something similar, but temptation is not involved. Hence simply 'a flood' is mentioned and not a flood of waters.
