Esodo 30:4
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.
Tables
'Tables,' as in the tables or tablets of stone that the 10 commandments were written on (in Exodus 32:16), signify the external of the Word, because they are distinct from the writing, which is its internal. The external of the Word is the literal sense, which is like a table or plane, which the internal sense is inscribed on.
(Referencat: Arcana Coelestia 10453)
