AE 401d - when the Lord was on the cross

AE 401d [15]
... the sun was darkened when the Lord was upon the cross, because He was entirely rejected by the church that then was with the Jews, who were consequently in dense darkness, or in falsities.

At the sixth hour darkness came over all the land until the ninth hour, for the sun was darkened. (Luke 23: 44,45)

That "darkness came over all the land"
signified that with those who were of the church there was nothing except the falsities of evil...
that it continued for three hours, namely,
"from the sixth to the ninth hour,"
signifies that there remained mere falsity, and no truth whatever,
for "three" signifies full, whole and entirely...
"and the darkness came, and the sun was darkened;"
the sun" that was obscured, meaning the Lord,
who is said to be "obscured" when falsities so prevail in the church that He is not acknowledged,
and evils so prevail that He is crucified.