The 8th day was an important Typological Symbol in the Bible. A few important things happened on it. e.g. - It was the day of Circumcision, the day of the Festival of the Booths, the day priests and Nazarites were to give their offerings to be purified. And naturally the 8th day, is Sunday. Anyway this has some symbolic meaning as far as the Bible goes.
One aspect of Biblical numerological symbolism is when you exceed a number. The number seven is the number of perfection. It is the “fullness of time” for an event etc. going back to the original story of the Creation in Genesis. If you add one to that, you actually symbolize entering into a new age, time or dispensation. (Jesus came in the fullness of time, aka at the right season to fulfill the prophecies of the Old Testament).
This sort of thing was also not lost on the writers of the Bible as one internet article relates: "...The apostles pick up on these themes, like with the eight people, including Noah, who were “saved through water” (1 Peter 3:20) and how we now have a spiritual circumcision of the heart instead of a physical procedure (Romans 2:29). But if we look back at the gospel in John 7:37-38 and also John 8:12, we can see that during the festival of booths Jesus used the symbols of that festival (water and light) to declare that he himself is the true fulfillment of that!"
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One aspect of Biblical numerological symbolism is when you exceed a number. The number seven is the number of perfection. It is the “fullness of time” for an event etc. going back to the original story of the Creation in Genesis. If you add one to that, you actually symbolize entering into a new age, time or dispensation. (Jesus came in the fullness of time, aka at the right season to fulfill the prophecies of the Old Testament).
This sort of thing was also not lost on the writers of the Bible as one internet article relates: "...The apostles pick up on these themes, like with the eight people, including Noah, who were “saved through water” (1 Peter 3:20) and how we now have a spiritual circumcision of the heart instead of a physical procedure (Romans 2:29). But if we look back at the gospel in John 7:37-38 and also John 8:12, we can see that during the festival of booths Jesus used the symbols of that festival (water and light) to declare that he himself is the true fulfillment of that!"
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