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E disse: Se del tutto tu ubbidisci alla voce del Signore Iddio tuo, e fai ciò che gli piace, e porgi gli orecchi a’ suoi comandamenti, e osservi tutti i suoi statuti; io non ti metterò addosso niuna delle infermità, le quali io ho messe sopra l’Egitto; perciocchè io sono il Signore che ti guarisco d’ogni male.
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.
8372. When they walk in this manner they always keep their face frontwards and in so doing they look to the front, never downwards or to the ground. They call looking downwards damnable. It is what the most worthless among them do, and if they do not grow accustomed to looking forwards they are banished from society.
