Since the sun represents the Lord, the early morning and sunrise represent a state of enlightenment with a new and clear understanding coming after a time of darkness. There are many ways this representation appears in modern life. For one, it’s long been tradition to orient churches with the sanctuary in the east, toward the rising sun. People grappling with a problem often decide to “sleep on it,” anticipating that answers will be more clear in the morning. And we actually use “dawn” as a verb for sudden enlightenment: “As he stared out the window, it dawned on him that the answer had been in his hands all along.”

10674. 'For I will drive out the nations from [before] your face' means shifting evil and the falsities of evil away. This is clear from the meaning of 'driving out', when used in reference to the evils and falsities that reside with a person, as shifting them away, for evils and falsities are not driven out of a person but are shifted away ¹ , see in the places referred to in 10057(end); and from the meaning of 'the nations' who were in the land of Canaan as evils and the falsities of evil, dealt with in the places referred to in 9327.