40
Poi vi sarà un quarto regno, duro come ferro; conciossiachè il ferro triti, e fiacchi ogni cosa: e come il ferro trita tutte quelle cose, quello triterà, e romperà tutto.
Daniel 2:40
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.
Sleep
In a general sense, sleeping in the Bible represents a state of obscurity about spiritual matters, a state in which you are not recognizing things that are spiritually true and not seeking what is spiritually good. In particular -- especially when someone is in a "deep sleep" -- it represents a state in which we believe we think, feel and do everything from ourselves, without acknowledging that all life comes from the Lord.
(References: Arcana Coelestia 147, 150, 3715, 5210)
