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이스라엘 자손의 온 회중이 엘림에서 떠나 엘림과 시내산 사이 신 광야에 이르니 애굽에서 나온 후 제 이월 십오일이라
Arcana Coelestia # 8400
8400. In the fifteenth day of the second month. That this signifies the state relatively, is evident from the signification of the number “fifteen,” from the signification of “day,” and from the signification of “month.” By “month” is signified the end of a former state and the beginning of the following state, thus a new state (see n. 3814); by “day” is signified state in general (n. 23, 487, 488, 493, 893, 2788, 3462, 3785, 4850, 7680); and by “fifteenth” is signified what is new, for by “fourteen days,” or “two weeks,” is signified an entire period, or a state from its beginning to its end (n. 728, 2044, 3845); consequently by “fifteen” is signified what is new, here what is new in life, which is signified by the manna that they received from heaven; for “manna” denotes the good of truth, which is the life of the spiritual man. For the like is signified by “fifteen” as by “eight,” because the eighth day is the first day of the following week. (That “eighth” denotes any beginning, thus what is new as distinguished from what was before, see n. 2044, 2866; and that all numbers in the Word signify things, n. 482, 487, 575, 647, 648, 755, 813, 1963, 1988, 2075, 2252, 3252, 4264, 4495, 4670, 5265, 6175)
Arcana Coelestia # 23
23. Nothing is more common in the Word than for “day” to be used to denote time itself. As in Isaiah:
The day of Jehovah is at hand. Behold, the day of Jehovah cometh. I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall be shaken out of her place, in the day of the wrath of Mine anger. Her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged (Isaiah 13:6, 9, 13, 22).
And in the same Prophet:
Her antiquity is of ancient days. And it shall come to pass in that day that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king (Isaiah 23:7, 15).
As “day” is used to denote time, it is also used to denote the state of that time, as in Jeremiah:
Woe unto us, for the day is gone down, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out (Jeremiah 6:4).
And again:
If ye shall make vain My covenant of the day, and My covenant of the night, so that there be not day and night in their season (Jeremiah 23:20, 25).
And again:
Renew our days, as of old (Lamentations 5:21).
