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Osea 2:21

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21 Ed avverrà in quel giorno, che io risponderò, dice il Signore, risponderò al cielo, ed esso risponderà alla terra.


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.

Commentary

 

Day and Night

  

In Genesis 8:22, this signifies the alternating states in intellectual matters of a regenerate person. (Arcana Coelestia 936)

In Isaiah 13:6 and Jeremiah 6:4, this stands for the state associated with that particular time. (Arcana Coelestia 23, 487)