Genesi 4:18
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 # 344
344. What is the use of faith, that is, what is the use of knowledge, awareness, and doctrine related to faith, other than of becoming such as it teaches? The first thing faith teaches is charity, Mark 12:28-35; Matthew 22:35-40, charity being the end of everything faith has in view. If a person does not become as it teaches, what is knowledge or doctrine but something which is in fact nothing?
Matthew 22:35-40
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One of them, a lawyer, asked him a question, testing him.
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"Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the law?"
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Jesus said to him, "'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.'
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This is the first and great commandment.
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A second likewise is this, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'
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The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments."
