Numeri 26:34
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.
First born from the dead
In Revelation 1:5, this signifies the Lord Himself, because as to His Human He is truth itself united to the Divine Good, from whom all men live, even though they are in themselves spiritually lifeless. (Apocalypse Explained 28, Apocalypse Revealed 17)
