62. The stages and states of the regeneration of man - both of mankind and of the individual person - divide into six and are called the days of his creation. Gradually from being no man at all, he first becomes something, though only little, then something more, until the sixth day is reached, when he becomes 'an image'.

6682. 'And he said to them, Why do you act like that and keep the boys alive?' means anger that the truths were not destroyed. This is clear from the meaning of 'why do you act like that?' as words of reproach, and so of anger; from the meaning of 'keeping alive' as not destroying, as above in 6677, 6680; and from the meaning of 'the boys' as truths that are the truths of good, dealt with in 6680.