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Genesi 3:4

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4 E il serpente disse alla donna: Voi non morreste punto.


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 #191

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191. Because from the love of self, that is, their own love, they began to believe nothing that they did not apprehend by the senses, the sensuous part is represented by the “serpent;” the love of self, or their own love, by the “woman;” and the rational by the “man.”

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