13. Not all people who are being regenerated reach this state. Some, indeed the majority nowadays, reach only the first. Some reach merely the second, others the third, fourth, or fifth. Seldom do any reach the sixth, and hardly anybody at all reaches the seventh.

3462. 'So it was on that day' means that state. This is clear from the meaning of 'day 'as state, dealt with in 23, 487, 488, 493, 893, 2788, here the state of the doctrine that is being dealt with.