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Genesi 16:12

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12 Ed esso sarà un uomo simigliante ad un asino salvatico; la man sua sarà contro a tutti, e la man di tutti contro a lui; ed egli abiterà dirimpetto a tutti i suoi fratelli.


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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Arcana Coelestia #1945

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1945. 'You will bear a son' means the truth of this rational man, meant by Ishmael. This is clear from the meaning of 'a son' as truth, dealt with already in 264, 489, 491, 533, 1147. This truth is described in the next verse.

  
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