Arcana Coelestia #23
23. Nothing is more common in the Word than for the word 'day' to be used to mean the particular time at which events take place, as in Isaiah,
The day of Jehovah is near. Behold, the day of Jehovah comes. I will make heaven tremble, and the earth will be shaken out of its place, on the day of My fierce anger. Its time is close at hand, and its days will not be prolonged. Isaiah 13:6, 9, 13, 22.
And in the same prophet,
Her antiquity is in the days of antiquity. On that day Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years, like the days of one king. Isaiah 23:7, 15.
Since 'day' stands for the particular time it also stands for the state associated with that particular time, as in Jeremiah, Woe to us, for the day has declined, for the shadows of evening have lengthened! Jeremiah 6:4
And in the same prophet,
If you break My covenant that is for the day and My covenant that is for the night, so that there is neither daytime nor night at their appointed time. Jeremiah 33:20, 25.
Also,
Renew our days as of old. Lamentations 5:21.
Galatians 5
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Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don't be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.
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Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.
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Yes, I testify again to every man who receives circumcision, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.
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You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.
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For we, through the Spirit, by faith wait for the hope of righteousness.
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For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.
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You were running well! Who interfered with you that you should not obey the truth?
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This persuasion is not from him who calls you.
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A little yeast grows through the whole lump.
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I have confidence toward you in the Lord that you will think no other way. But he who troubles you will bear his judgment, whoever he is.
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But I, brothers, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? Then the stumbling block of the cross has been removed.
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I wish that those who disturb you would cut themselves off.
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For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don't use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.
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For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."
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But if you bite and devour one another, be careful that you don't consume one another.
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But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won't fulfill the lust of the flesh.
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For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.
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But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
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Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,
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idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies,
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envyings, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the Kingdom of God.
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But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,
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gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
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Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.
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If we live by the Spirit, let's also walk by the Spirit.
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Let's not become conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another.
