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Genesis 1:23

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23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.

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Arcana Coelestia # 23

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23. Nothing is more common in the Word than for the word 'day' to be used to mean the particular time at which events take place, as in Isaiah,

The day of Jehovah is near. Behold, the day of Jehovah comes. I will make heaven tremble, and the earth will be shaken out of its place, on the day of My fierce anger. Its time is close at hand, and its days will not be prolonged. Isaiah 13:6, 9, 13, 22.

And in the same prophet,

Her antiquity is in the days of antiquity. On that day Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years, like the days of one king. Isaiah 23:7, 15.

Since 'day' stands for the particular time it also stands for the state associated with that particular time, as in Jeremiah, Woe to us, for the day has declined, for the shadows of evening have lengthened! Jeremiah 6:4

And in the same prophet,

If you break My covenant that is for the day and My covenant that is for the night, so that there is neither daytime nor night at their appointed time. Jeremiah 33:20, 25.

Also,

Renew our days as of old. Lamentations 5:21.

  
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Arcana Coelestia # 6707

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6707. From all this it is now plain that the degree in which each individual person is the neighbour is determined by the character of his Christian good. For since that good is the Lord's He is present in it, and the degree of His presence is decided by the character of it. And because the origin of the neighbour ought to be traced back to the Lord, it is also plain that distinctions of the neighbour are determined by the different degrees of the Lord's presence in good, thus by the character of that good.

  
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