The color green is almost exclusively used in connection with plants in the Bible, and the meaning is closely connected to the meaning of plants as well. Plants, in general, represent facts, knowledge that we can gather from the world. Green plants are ones that are alive and growing. Since life represents love and goodness, it makes sense that green plants are facts that have the potential for good use. It also indicates that they are the kinds of things we learn through directly through our senses, since to identify green plants we need to actually see the greenness.

(Notae: Apocalypse Explained 507; Apocalypse Revealed 426; Arcana Coelestia 7691)

8811. 'And so it was on the third day' - means at the end of purification. This is clear from the meaning of 'the third day' as the end of the state of preparation to receive, as above in 8791, and so the end of purification.