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Jonah 3:8

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8 e che si coprano di sacchi gli uomini, e le bestie; e che si gridi di forza a Dio; e che ciascuno si converta dalla sua via malvagia, e dalla violenza ch’è nelle sue mani.


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

 

Nineveh

  

'Nineveh' signifies the falsities of doctrinal matters, or the falsities originating in the fallacies of the senses in the obscurity of an unenlightened understanding and in ignorance.

(References: Arcana Coelestia 1188)