Sun and days of the Lord

Meaning

The Second Response's third utterance moves from night passed to sunlight, then to the approaching days of the Lord and a heaven become pure fire. The sequence joins illumination with eschatological transformation. It does not identify a calendar date or explain the sunlight as ordinary gold in a vessel. The English retains the plural 'days' and the movement from near approach to the world being set alight. This terse first-person-response setting differs from Nature's astronomical solar courses and the Via's metallic Sun; shared names are not sufficient evidence of a shared literal referent.