Genesi第47章:14
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#6142
6142. 'And Joseph bought all the ground of Egypt for Pharaoh' means that [the internal] made the entire natural mind where factual knowledge resides its own and placed it under its overall control. This is clear from the representation of 'Joseph' as the internal, dealt with often; from the meaning of 'buying' as making one's own, dealt with in 4397, 5374, 5797, 5406, 5410, 5426; from the meaning of 'the ground of Egypt' as the natural mind where factual knowledge resides, dealt with immediately above in 6141; and from the representation of 'Pharaoh' as the natural in general, dealt with in 5160, 5799, 6015. Thus the acquisition of that ground for Pharaoh means placing under an overall control in the natural.
