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.

6632. Thus it is also that teachings about charity, which were so precious to the ancients, are part of those things that at the present day have become lost. Does anyone at the present day know what charity is in the true sense of the word, or what is meant by neighbour in the true sense of that word? Yet those teachings figure prominently in so many and such important arcana that not a thousandth part of them can be described. The whole of Sacred Scripture is nothing else than teachings about love and charity, as the Lord also teaches when He says,

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the first and great commandment. The second is like it, You shall love your neighbour as yourself. On these two commandments hang the Law and the Prophets. Matthew 22:37-40.

'The Law and the Prophets' is the Word, every single detail of it.