9. The third state is one of repentance, a state in which he speaks piously and devoutly from the internal man and brings forth goods, like charitable acts which are nevertheless inanimate since he imagines that they originate in himself. They are called a tender plant, then a seed-bearing plant, and finally a fruit tree.

3830. 'For my days are completed, so that I may go [in] to her' means that that state has now been reached. This is clear from the meaning of 'days' as states, dealt with in 23, 487, 488, 493, 893, 2788, 3462, 3785 - 'days having been completed, so that I may go [in] to her' meaning, as is evident without explanation, that that state had now been reached.