246. 'Beast' and 'wild animal of the field' mean affections. This becomes clear from what has been stated already in 45, 46, about 'beast' and 'wild animal', to which let the following quotation from David be added,

You shake down a shower of blessings, O God; Your heritage which is labouring, You strengthen; Your wild animals will dwell in it. Psalms 68:9-10.

Here also 'wild animal' stands for the affection for good, since it is going 'to dwell in God's heritage'. The reason 'beast' and 'wild animal of the field' are mentioned here, as also in Genesis 2:19, 20, but 'beast' and 'wild animal of the earth' in Genesis 1:24-25, is that the subject is the Church, that is, man when regenerate, whereas in Chapter 1 the subject is the time when the Church does not exist, that is, when man has yet to be regenerated; for 'field' is a term applying to the Church, that is, to man when regenerate.

8400. 'On the fifteenth day of the second month' means this state considered in relation ... This is clear from the meaning of the number 'fifteen', from the meaning of 'day', and from the meaning of 'month'. 'Month' means the end of the previous state and the beginning of the next, thus a new state, 3814; 'day' means a state in general, 23, 487, 488, 493, 893, 2788, 3462, 3785, 4850, 7680, and 'the fifteenth' means that which is new. For 'fourteen days' or two weeks mean a whole period or state from the beginning to the end of it, 728, 2044, 3845; 'fifteen' therefore means something new, in this instance newness of life, meant by the manna which they received from heaven, 'manna' being the good of truth, which is the life of a spiritual person. Fifteen is similar in meaning to eight, because the eighth day is the first day of a following week. For the meaning of 'the eighth day' as any beginning whatever, thus something new that is distinct and separate from what has gone before, see 2044, 2866; and for the fact that all numbers in the Word have spiritual realities as their meaning, 482, 487, 575, 647, 648, 755, 813, 1963, 1988, 2075, 2252, 3252, 4264, 4495, 4670, 5265, 6175.