CLJ 2 & 13 - evening & night and morning & day

Continuation concerning the Last Judgment 2 & 13

CLJ 2
The subject of the Last Judgment is continued,
principally that it may be known
what the state of the world and the church was before the Last Judgment,
and what the state of the world and the church has become since;
also, how the Last Judgment was accomplished upon the Reformed.

CLJ 13
The state of the world and of the church
before the Last Judgment was like evening and night,
but after it, like morning and day.
When the light of truth does not appear, and truth is not received,
there is a state of the church in the world like evening and night;
. . . there was a state before the Last Judgment . . .
but when the light of truth appears, and the truth is received,
there is a state of the church in the world like morning and day.

Watch, for ye know not when the Lord of the house will come,
whether at evening, at midnight,
at cock-crowing, or in the morning.
(Mark 13:35)

Jesus said, I must work while it is day;
the night comes, when no one can work.
(John 9:4)

Since such things are meant by "evening and night,"
therefore the Lord,
in order to fulfil the Word,
also was buried in the evening
and afterward rose again in the morning.