Genesi 11:21
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 #1331
1331. That 'Shem' is internal worship in general is clear from what has just been said. The nature of the internal worship of this Church is evident from the people referred to one after another from Shem, that is to say, they all had to do with factual knowledge. Further confirmation of this is gained from the numbers of the years when those numbers are examined more closely and broken down into their components.
