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Ezechiele 1:16

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16 L’aspetto delle ruote, e il lor lavoro, era simile al color d’un grisolito; e tutte e quattro aveano una medesima sembianza; e il loro aspetto, e il lor lavoro era come se una ruota fosse stata in mezzo di un’altra ruota.


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.

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Scriptural Confirmations #23

  
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23. 21. Art thou not from old, Jehovah, my God, mine Holy One? let us not die. Jehovah, thou hast placed him for judgment, and, O Rock, thou hast established him for correction (Habakkuk 1:12). (The vision is yet for the appointed time; it shall not lie: wait for it, because in coming it will come, nor will it tarry (Habakkuk 2:3).

Jehovah, I have heard the report of Thee; I have revered Thy work; make that present in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make [known]. God shall come out of Teman, and the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah. His honor covered the heavens, and the earth was full of His praise. His brightness will be as the light, rays coming forth from His hand, and there will be the hiding of His strength. Thou wentest forth for the salvation of Thy people. I will be glad in Jehovah, I will exult in the God of my salvation. Jehovah Lord is my strength, He will make me to walk upon mine high places (Habakkuk 3:2-4, 13, 18-19).

(Shout and be glad, O daughter of Zion; for, lo, I come that I may dwell in the midst of thee. Then many nations shall be joined to Jehovah in that day, they shall be to Me for a people, and I will dwell in thee (Zechariah 2:10-11).)

(Exult greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem; behold, thy King cometh unto thee: He is just and saved, lowly, riding upon an ass, and upon the foal of asses. He shall speak peace unto the nations: and His dominion shall be from sea to sea, and from the river even unto the ends of the earth.) Jehovah shall appear over them, and His weapon shall go forth as the lightning, and the Lord Jehovih shall sound with a trumpet, and shall go in the whirlwinds of the south. Jehovah their God shall save them in that day as the flock, His people (Zechariah 9:9-10, 14, 16).

(Behold, I send Mine angel, who shall prepare the way before Me; and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to His temple), and the messenger of the covenant whom ye seek. Behold, He cometh, saith Jehovah of Hosts. Who may abide His coming, and who may stand when He appeareth? (Malachi 3:1-2).

Behold, I send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of Jehovah come, that he may turn the heart of the fathers to the sons, and the heart of the sons to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse ([Malachi 4:5-6]).

  
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Rivelazione 1:13

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13 E in mezzo di que’ sette candellieri, uno, simigliante ad un figliuol d’uomo, vestito d’una vesta lunga fino a’ piedi, e cinto d’una cintura d’oro all’altezza del seno.


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.