Genesi 30:5
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 #4021
4021. 'And Jacob singled out the lambs' means as regards innocence. This is clear from the meaning of 'the lambs' as innocence, dealt with above in 3994. The phrase 'as regards innocence' is used because the subject in what follows is the ordering of natural good and truth for the reception and accommodation of innocence.
