8017. 'And so it was on this same day' means a state of the Lord's presence. This is clear from the meaning of 'day' as a period of time and a state, dealt with in 23, 487, 488, 493, 893, 2788, 3462, 3785, 4850, 7680. The reason why a state of the Lord's presence is meant is that it was Passover day, and 'the Passover' means the Lord's presence and the deliverance of those belonging to the spiritual Church from spiritual captivity and from damnation, 7867. Deliverance then is meant by what this verse goes on to say, namely that on that day Jehovah brought the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their hosts. The fact that this was on the day after the Passover is clear in Moses,

They set out from Egypt on the fifteenth day of the first month, on the day after the Passover, in the sight ¹ of all the Egyptians, at the time that the Egyptians were burying the firstborn who had been killed. Numbers 33:3-4.

The Lord's presence delivers from damnation those who are governed by good, and brings to damnation those who are ruled by evil, see 7926, 7989.

Fußnoten:

Time is an aspect of the physical world, but it is not an aspect of the spiritual world. The same is true of space: There is no space in heaven. This is hard for us to grasp or even visualize, because we live in physical bodies with physical senses that are filled with physical elements existing in time and space. Our minds are schooled and patterned in terms of time and space, and have no reference point to imagine a reality without them. Consider how you think for a second. In your mind you can immediately be in your past or in some speculative future; in your mind you can circle the globe seeing other lands and faraway friends, or even zoom instantly to the most distant stars. Such imaginings are insubstantial, of course, but if we could make them real we would be getting close to what spiritual reality is like. Indeed, the mind is like a spiritual organ, which may be why physicians and philosophers have had such a hard time juxtaposing its functions to those of the brain. What this means in the Bible is that descriptions of time -- hours, days, weeks, months, years and even simply the word "time" itself -- represent spiritual states, and the passing of time represents the change of spiritual states. Again, we can see this a little bit within our minds. If we imagine talking to one friend then talking to another, it feels like going from one place to another, even though we're not moving. The same is true if we picture a moment from childhood and then imagine something in the future; it feels like a movement through time even though it's instantaneous. Changing our state of mind feels like a physical change in space and time. The Bible simply reverses that, with marking points in space and time representing particular states of mind.