I tend to agree that the use of \"days\" is figurative, or even- you could say symbolic. Because 7 days was the numeric symbol for the completed time, and the 8th day symbolic of the resorection, the \"7th day when God rested\" was mostly profectic, and pointing towards the 7th day when Christ gave himself up on the cross and \"rested\" or \"died, like Fr. Hopko says, he did all he could do for our salvation, the book- or the word was spoken and there he hung on the cross explaining to us what Love is really like. The 7 days of creation and resting were written down for the whole perpose of pointing towards Christ our Savior, the Bible is not a history book although it has history in it- it is a book about Salvation, not about our past in the literal sense.
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