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Genesi 21:5

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5 Or Abrahamo era d’età di cent’anni, quando Isacco suo figliuolo gli nacque.


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 #2616

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2616. 'Jehovah visited Sarah' means the presence of the Divine celestial within the Divine spiritual. This is clear from the meaning of Jehovah as the Divine celestial, that is, the Divine Good, or Being (Esse) itself, which because it is the source of love and mercy is Good itself; from the meaning of 'visiting' as being present; and from the meaning of 'Sarah' as the Divine spiritual, that is, Divine Truth, dealt with in 1468, 1901, 2063, 2065, 2507.

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.