If man closes up the middle natural degree, which corresponds to the middle spiritual, he becomes, with respect to love, like a fox, and with respect to intellectual sight, like a bird of the evening. People in self-derived prudence are like foxes and wolves.

(References: True Christian Religion 34)

26. Verse 8 And there was evening, and there was morning, a second day.

What 'evening', 'morning', and 'day' mean, has been shown already at verse 5.