717. From these considerations it is also clear that the subject is things belonging to man's will, or the good and holy things in him which are attributes of the will. In this verse it is said that he was to take sevens of each clean beast, and in the next verse of each bird similarly. But in verses 19-20, of the previous chapter it is not said that he was to take sevens but two of each, that is, pairs of them, because there the subject was things belonging to the understanding, which in themselves are not holy but are made so by the love which constitutes the will.

84. Verses 2-3 And on the seventh day God finished His work which He had made, and rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had made. And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, for on that day He rested from all His work which God had created when making it.

The celestial man is 'the seventh day'; and because throughout the six days it has been the Lord at work, that man is called 'His work'. In addition, because conflict at that point ceases, the Lord is said 'to rest from all His work'. It was for this reason that the seventh day was made holy and was called the Sabbath from a word for 'rest'; and it was in this manner that man was created, formed, and made, as may be seen plainly from the words themselves.