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Genesi 4:17

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17 E Caino conobbe la sua moglie, ed ella concepette, e partorì Enoch. Poi egli si mise ad edificare una città, e la nominò del nome del suo figliuolo Enoch.


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 #347

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347. That 'the end of days' is used to mean the course of time may be clear to anyone. In its earliest form, when simplicity was still present in it, this doctrine called Cain does not seem to have been so unacceptable as it was later on. This is clear from the fact that they called offspring 'Gained a man, Jehovah'; so in its earliest form faith was not separated so much from love as it was 'at the end of days', or in the course of time, as usually happens with all doctrine that belongs to true faith.

  
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