Genesi 49:21
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.
Arcana Coelestia # 6357
6357. 'And in their pleasure they hamstrung an ox' means that motivated by a wicked will they crippled completely the external good of charity. This is clear from the meaning of 'good pleasure' as the will, here a wicked will; from the meaning of 'hamstringing' as crippling; and from the meaning of 'an ox' as the natural or external good of charity, dealt with in 2180, 2566, 2781. The reason why 'an ox' is spoken of here, and 'a man' immediately before, is that 'a man' means the truth of faith and 'an ox' the good of charity; and they are both spoken of so that when good is the subject, truth too is dealt with, on account of the heavenly marriage present in every detail of the Word, 6343.
