221. 'Breeze, or breath, ¹ of the daytime' means a time when the Church still had a residue of perception. This becomes clear from the meaning of 'day' and of 'night'. The most ancient people compared states of the Church to the times of the day and of the night. States when the Church still had light they compared to times of the day; therefore this verse speaks of 'the breath' or breeze of the daytime' as when they still had some residue of perception, from which they knew that they were fallen. The Lord too calls a state in which there is faith 'the daytime' and one in which there is none 'the night', as in John,

I must work the works of Him who sent Me while it is day; night is coming when nobody will be able to work. John 9:4.

The consecutive states of man's regeneration for the same reason were called 'days' in Chapter Genesis 1.

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'The third day' as in Genesis 22:4, signifies something complete and a beginning of sanctification. 'Day,' in the Word, signifies a state, as do all references to time. When 'third' is added, it signifies the end of that state and the beginning of the following state. In the internal sense of the Word, 'three days' and 'the third day' signify the same thing. The Lord rose again on the third day, which is also why the Lord distinguished the stages of his life into three in Luke 8:32. The Lord also endured the last temptation on the cross, on 'the third hour of the day' in Mark 15:25. In Exodus 19:16, 'the third day' signifies the end of a state of preparation for reception, and so an end of purification. In Hosea 6:2, 8, 'the third day' has the same meaning as 'the seventh day,' which is a state of peace.

(Odkazy: Arcana Coelestia 8811; Luke 8; Mark 15)