Bibeln

Genesis 1:16

¹⁶ And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.

Bibeln

2 Peter 3:5

⁵ For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:

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Day and Night

In Genesis 8:22, this signifies the alternating states in intellectual matters of a regenerate person. (Arcana Coelestia 936)

In Isaiah 13:6 and Jeremiah 6:4, this stands for the state associated with that particular time. (Arcana Coelestia 23, 487)