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<\/b>It\u2019s easy to see that names are important in the Bible<\/a>. Jehovah changed Abram and Sarai to Abraham and Sarah, changed Jacob to Israel and included in the Ten Commandments the order that believers \u201cshall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain.\u201d In the New Testament, Zacharias was told to name John the Baptist \u201cJohn,\u201d and both Joseph (Matthew 1:21) and Mary (Luke 1:31) were told to name Jesus \u201cJesus.\u201d Jesus himself renamed Simon as Peter, and included the phrase \u201challowed be thy name\u201d in the Lord\u2019s prayer, along with numerous references to people doing things \u201cin my name.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Swedenborg<\/a>, a person\u2019s name in the Bible represents his or her entire spiritual<\/a> nature, their whole state of love<\/a> (good<\/a> or evil<\/a>) and thought (from heavenly<\/a> wisdom<\/a> to infernal<\/a> insanity<\/a>). This is why the name of the Lord<\/a> is so especially important; it represents and embodies his perfect love<\/a> and perfect wisdom<\/a>, which is everything that we should worship<\/a> and follow.<\/p>\n

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Passages from Swedenborg<\/b><\/p>\n

Arcana Coelestia (Elliott) n. 2009<\/b><\/p>\n

2009. That ‘no longer will your\u00a0name\u00a0be called Abram’ means that He will cast off the human, and that ‘your\u00a0name\u00a0will be Abraham’ means that He will put on the Divine, is clear from the meaning of ‘name’, also from the meaning of ‘Abram’, and after that of ‘Abraham’. When the phrase ‘your\u00a0name\u00a0will be’ is used in the Word it means the nature of, that is, what a person’s nature is going to be like, as is clear from what has been brought forward in Volume One, in 144, 145, 1754. And since ‘names\u00a0means the nature of, a\u00a0name\u00a0includes everything in its entirety within that person, for in heaven no attention is paid to someone’s\u00a0name, but when anyone is referred to by\u00a0name, or when a\u00a0name\u00a0is used, a mental picture of his nature comes up, that is, of all that is his, with him and in him. This is why ‘name’ in the Word means the nature of. To make this matter clearer to the understanding let further confirmatory quotations from the Word be introduced, such as in the Blessing in Moses,<\/p>\n

Jehovah bless you and keep you; Jehovah make His face* shine upon you and be merciful to you; Jehovah lift up His face* upon you and give you peace.<\/p>\n

So shall they put My\u00a0name\u00a0upon the sons of Israel. Num. 6:24-27.<\/p>\n

From this it is evident what ‘name’ and ‘putting Jehovah’sname\u00a0upon the sons of Israel’ means,\u00a0namely\u00a0that Jehovah blesses, keeps, enlightens, is merciful, and gives peace, and that such is Jehovah’s or the Lord’s nature.<\/p>\n

[2] In the Ten Commandments,<\/p>\n

You shall not take the\u00a0name\u00a0of Jehovah your God in vain, for Jehovah will not hold him guiltless who has taken His\u00a0name\u00a0in vain. Exod. 20:7; Deut. 5:11.<\/p>\n

Here taking God’s\u00a0name\u00a0in vain does not mean His\u00a0name\u00a0but every single thing deriving from Him, and so every single thing belonging to the worship of Him, which must not be treated with disdain, still less be blasphemed and defiled by what is filthy. In the Lord’s Prayer,<\/p>\n

Hallowed be Your\u00a0name. Your kingdom come, Your will be done, as in heaven so on earth. Luke 11:2.<\/p>\n

Nor in this instance is ‘name’ used to mean\u00a0name\u00a0but all things that belong to love and faith, for these are God’s, or the Lord’s, and derive from Him. Since the latter are holy, the Lord’s kingdom comes, and His will is done on earth as it is in heaven, when they are upheld as being holy.<\/p>\n

[3] That ‘name’ means such things is clear from all the places in the Old Testament Word and in the New where the word ‘name’ is used, as in Isaiah,<\/p>\n

You will say on that day, Confess Jehovah, call on His\u00a0name, make His deeds known among the peoples, make mention that His\u00a0name\u00a0is exalted. Isa. 12:4.<\/p>\n

Here ‘calling on the\u00a0name\u00a0of Jehovah’ and ‘making mention that it is exalted’ does not in any way mean making the\u00a0nameitself an object of worship, or believing that Jehovah is called on by the mere uttering of His\u00a0name, but by knowing His nature, and so every single thing that derives from Him. In the same prophet,<\/p>\n

Therefore in the Urim give honour to Jehovah, in the isles of the sea to the\u00a0name\u00a0of Jehovah, the God of Israel. Isa. 24:15.<\/p>\n

Here ‘in the Urim give honour to Jehovah’ means worship based on the holy things of love, ‘in the isles of the sea to thename\u00a0of Jehovah, the God of Israel’ worship based on the holy things of faith.<\/p>\n

[4] In the same prophet,<\/p>\n

Jehovah our God, in You alone will we make mention of Yourname. Isa. 26:13.<\/p>\n

And in the same prophet,<\/p>\n

I will stir up one from the north, and he will come, from the rising of the sun he will call on My\u00a0name. Isa. 41:25.<\/p>\n

Here ‘making mention of’ and ‘calling on the\u00a0name\u00a0of Jehovah’ is worshipping from the goods of love and the truths of faith. Those ‘from the north’ are people outside the Church who do not know the\u00a0name\u00a0of Jehovah but who do nevertheless call on His\u00a0name\u00a0when they are leading charitable lives one with another and venerate some deity as the Creator of the universe, for it is the worship and what constitutes it, not the\u00a0name, that calling on Jehovah entails. That the Lord is also present with gentiles, see 932, 1032, 1059.<\/p>\n

[5] In the same prophet,<\/p>\n

The nations will see your righteousness and all the kings your glory; and you will be called by a new\u00a0name\u00a0which the mouth of Jehovah will announce. Isa. 62:2.<\/p>\n

Here ‘you will be called by a new\u00a0name’ stands for becoming a different person, that is to say, as a result of being created anew or regenerated, and so stands for becoming such. In Micah,<\/p>\n

All the peoples walk each in the\u00a0name\u00a0of its god, but we will walk in the\u00a0name\u00a0of Jehovah our God for ever and eternally. Micah 4:5.<\/p>\n

‘Walking in the\u00a0name\u00a0of its god’ clearly stands for worship that is profane, while ‘walking in the\u00a0name\u00a0of Jehovah’ stands for true worship. In Malachi,<\/p>\n

From the rising of the sun and even to its setting, great is Myname\u00a0among the nations; and in every place incense is offered to My\u00a0name, and a pure minchah, for great is My\u00a0name\u00a0among the nations. Mal. 1:11.<\/p>\n

Here ‘name’ is not used to mean the\u00a0name\u00a0but the worship; and this worship is the essential nature of Jehovah or the Lord, from which He wills to be adored.<\/p>\n

[6] In Moses,<\/p>\n

The place which Jehovah your God chooses out of all the tribes to put His\u00a0name\u00a0there, and to make His\u00a0name\u00a0dwell there, to that place shall you bring all that I am commanding you. Deut. 12:5, 11, 14; 16:2, 6, 11.<\/p>\n

Here also ‘putting His\u00a0name’ and ‘making His\u00a0name\u00a0dwell there’ do not mean the\u00a0name\u00a0but the worship, and so Jehovah’s or the Lord’s essential nature from which He is to be worshipped. His nature consists in the good of love and the truth of faith, it being with those who are governed by such good and truth that Jehovah’s\u00a0name\u00a0dwells. In Jeremiah,<\/p>\n

Go to My place which is in Shiloh where I made My\u00a0namedwell at first. Jer. 7:12.<\/p>\n

Here similarly ‘name’ stands for worship, and so for doctrine concerning true faith. It may become clear to anyone that Jehovah does not dwell with somebody who merely knows and utters His\u00a0name, for without any conception and recognition of His essential nature, and without any belief in it, the\u00a0name\u00a0by itself is a mere verbal expression. From this it is evident that the word ‘name’ means the nature of, and the knowledge of that nature.<\/p>\n

[7] In Moses,<\/p>\n

At that time Jehovah set apart the tribe of Levi to serve Him and to bless in His\u00a0name. Deut. 10:8.<\/p>\n

Here ‘blessing in the\u00a0name\u00a0of Jehovah’ is doing so not by means of the\u00a0name\u00a0but by means of those qualities associated with the\u00a0name\u00a0of Jehovah which have been referred to above. In Jeremiah,<\/p>\n

This is His\u00a0name\u00a0which they will call Him, Jehovah our righteousness. Jer. 23:6.<\/p>\n

Here ‘name’ stands for the righteousness which is the essential nature of the Lord, to whom these words refer. In Isaiah,<\/p>\n

Jehovah called Me from the womb, from My mother’s body** He made mention of My\u00a0name. Isa. 49:1.<\/p>\n

These words too refer to the Lord. ‘Making mention of Hisname’ is informing about His essential nature.<\/p>\n

[8] That ‘name’ means the nature of is plainer still in John’s Revelation,<\/p>\n

You have a few\u00a0names\u00a0in Sardis, who have not soiled their garments; and they will walk with Me in white, for they are worthy. He who conquers will be clad in white garments and I will not blot his\u00a0name\u00a0out of the book of life; and I will confess his\u00a0name\u00a0before My father and before the angels. He who conquers I will write on him the\u00a0name\u00a0of God, and the\u00a0name\u00a0of the city of My God, the New Jerusalem which comes down out of heaven from My God, and My new\u00a0name. Rev. 3:4, 5, 12.<\/p>\n

Here it is quite clear that\u00a0name\u00a0does not mean the\u00a0name\u00a0but the essential nature of him who conquers. ‘The\u00a0name\u00a0in the book of life’ is nothing else. Nor is ‘confessing his\u00a0name\u00a0before My Father’, and ‘writing on him the\u00a0name\u00a0of God and of the city, and a new\u00a0name’. The same applies elsewhere to the\u00a0nameswhich are said to have been written in the book of life and in heaven, Rev. 13:8; 17:8; Luke 10:20.<\/p>\n

[9] In heaven one person is always recognized from another by his nature or character, which is expressed in the sense of the letter as ‘the\u00a0name’, as may also become clear to anyone from the fact that on earth the mention of anybody’s\u00a0name\u00a0presents to another a mental picture of his nature or character by which he is known and distinguished from anyone else. In the next life those mental pictures survive but\u00a0names\u00a0perish. More especially is this so with angels. This is why in the internal sense ‘name’ means the essential nature of, or the knowledge of that nature. In the same book,<\/p>\n

On the head of Him who sat on the white horse were many jewels. He has a\u00a0name\u00a0written which no one knows but He Himself. He was clad in a garment dipped in blood, and Hisname\u00a0is called The Word of God. Rev. 19:12, 13.<\/p>\n

Here it is stated openly that His ‘name’ is The Word of God, thus the essential nature of Him who sat on the white horse.<\/p>\n

[10] The fact that the\u00a0name\u00a0of Jehovah means the knowledge of His nature, that is to say, it means every good of love and every truth of faith, is quite clear from these words spoken by the Lord,<\/p>\n

Righteous Father, I have known You, and these too have known that You have sent Me, for I made known to them Yourname, and I will make it known that the love with which You have loved Me may be in them, and I in them. John 17:25, 26.<\/p>\n

[11] And that the\u00a0name\u00a0of God or of the Lord means the whole doctrine of faith concerning love and charity, which is meant by ‘believing in His\u00a0name’, is clear from these words in the same gospel,<\/p>\n

As many as received Him, to them He gave power to be sons of God, to those believing in His\u00a0name. John 1:12.<\/p>\n

If you ask anything in My\u00a0name, I will do it. If you love Me, keep My commandments. John 14:13-15.<\/p>\n

Whatever you ask the Father in My\u00a0name\u00a0He may give it to you. These things I command you, that you love one another. John 15:16, 17.<\/p>\n

In Matthew,<\/p>\n

Where two or three are gathered together in My\u00a0name, there am I in the midst of them. Matt. 18:20.<\/p>\n

Here ‘being gathered together in the Lord’s\u00a0name’ means those who possess the doctrine of faith concerning love and charity, and so who are governed by love and charity.<\/p>\n

[12] In the same gospel,<\/p>\n

You will be hated by all nations for My\u00a0name’s sake. Matt. 10:22; 24:9, 10; Mark 13:13.<\/p>\n

Here ‘for My\u00a0name’s sake’ clearly stands for doctrine’s sake. The fact that a\u00a0name\u00a0itself is of no avail, only that which thename\u00a0embodies, that is to say, everything constituting charity and faith, is quite clear from the following in Matthew,<\/p>\n

Did we not prophesy through Your\u00a0name, and cast out demons through Your\u00a0name, and do many mighty works in Your\u00a0name? And then I will confess to them, I do not know you; depart from Me, you workers of iniquity. Matt. 7:22, 23.<\/p>\n

From this it is clear that people who make worship consist in aname, as Jews do in the\u00a0name\u00a0of Jehovah and Christians in thename\u00a0of the Lord, are not on that account worthier than any others, for the\u00a0name\u00a0is of no avail. But they are worthier when their characters conform to what He has commanded; and this is the meaning of ‘believing in His\u00a0name’. And when they say that there is salvation in no other\u00a0name\u00a0than the Lord’s they mean in no other doctrine, that is, in none other than mutual love, which is the true doctrine of faith, and so in none other than the Lord since all love comes from Him alone, and all faith from that love.
\n* lit. faces
\n** lit. viscera<\/p>\n

Arcana Coelestia (Elliott) n. 6674<\/b><\/p>\n

6674. ‘Of whom the\u00a0name\u00a0of the one was Shiphrah, and thename\u00a0of the other Puah’ means the nature and state of the natural where that factual knowledge resided. This is clear from the meaning of ‘the\u00a0name’ as the essential nature, dealt with in 144, 145, 1896, 2009, and also the state, 1946, 2643, 3422, 4298. For the\u00a0names\u00a0contained in the Word all serve to mean different realities, each\u00a0name\u00a0embodying in a nutshell all the characteristics, thus the nature and state of that reality to which it refers. Here therefore the\u00a0names\u00a0Shiphrah and Puah mean the nature and state of the natural where true factual knowledge resides since this is the reality to which those\u00a0names\u00a0refer, as is evident from what appears immediately before this in 6673. A person who is unaware of the fact that a\u00a0name\u00a0serves to mean the nature and state of the reality to which it refers can only think that no more than the\u00a0name\u00a0is meant when that\u00a0name\u00a0is mentioned.<\/p>\n

[2] Thus he can only think that when the Lord speaks of Hisname\u00a0no more than this is meant, when in fact what is meant is the essential nature of the worship of Him, that is to say, every aspect of faith and charity through which He is to be worshipped, as in Matthew,<\/p>\n

Where two or three are gathered together in My\u00a0name, there am I in the midst of them. Matt. 18:20.<\/p>\n

Not the\u00a0name\u00a0is meant here, but worship flowing from faith and charity. In John,<\/p>\n

As many as received Him, to them He gave power to be sons of God, to those believing in His\u00a0name. John 1:12.<\/p>\n

Here also ‘name’ is used to mean faith and charity from which the Lord is worshipped. In the same gospel,<\/p>\n

These things have been written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in His\u00a0name. John 20:31.<\/p>\n

Here the meaning is similar.<\/p>\n

[3] In the same gospel,<\/p>\n

If you ask anything in My\u00a0name, I will do it. John 14:13, 14.<\/p>\n

And elsewhere,<\/p>\n

Whatever you ask the Father in My\u00a0name\u00a0He will give it to you. John 15:16, 17; 16:23, 24.<\/p>\n

The real meaning here is not that they were to ask the Father in the Lord’s\u00a0name, but that they were to ask the Lord Himself. For no access lies open to Divine Good, which is the Father, 3704, except through the Lord’s Divine Human, as the various Churches also well know. This being so, asking the Lord Himself is a request made in accordance with the truths of faith; and if the request is indeed made in accord with them it is granted, as He Himself also says in the place in John quoted immediately before – If you ask anything in My\u00a0name, I will do it. This matter is made even clearer by the fact that the Lord is meant by Jehovah’s ‘name’, when mentioned as follows in Moses,<\/p>\n

I send an angel before you to guard you on the way. Take notice of His face, and hearken to His voice, and do not provoke Him, since My\u00a0name\u00a0is in the midst of Him. Exod. 23:20, 21.<\/p>\n

[4] In John,<\/p>\n

Father, glorify Your\u00a0name. A voice came from heaven, I have both glorified it and will glorify it again. John 12:28.<\/p>\n

In the same gospel,<\/p>\n

I have manifested Your\u00a0name\u00a0to the men (homo) whom You gave to Me out of the world. I made known to them Yourname, and I will make it known, that the love with which You have loved Me may be in them, and I in them. John 17:6, 26.<\/p>\n

From these quotations it is evident that the Lord’s Divine Human is Jehovah’s\u00a0name\u00a0or whole essential nature. Consequently all Divine worship begins in the Divine Human; and the Divine Human is what one is to worship, for by worshipping this one worships the Divine Himself, no thought of whom can otherwise be formed. And if no such thought can be formed, there can be no communion with Him either.<\/p>\n

[5] The truth that the Lord’s ‘name’ is everything constituting the faith and love through which He is to be worshipped is still further evident from the following places: In Matthew,<\/p>\n

You will be hated by everyone for My\u00a0name’s sake. Matt. 10:22.<\/p>\n

In the same gospel,<\/p>\n

He who receives one little child like this in My\u00a0name\u00a0receives Me. Matt. 18:5.<\/p>\n

In the same gospel,<\/p>\n

Everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields, for My\u00a0name’s sake, will receive a hundredfold. Matt. 19:29.<\/p>\n

In the same gospel,<\/p>\n

They shouted, Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is He who comes in the\u00a0name\u00a0of the Lord. Matt. 21:9.<\/p>\n

In Luke,<\/p>\n

Truly I tell you; for you will not see Me until [the time] comes so that you say, Blessed is He who comes in the\u00a0name\u00a0of the Lord! Luke 13:35.<\/p>\n

In Mark,<\/p>\n

Whoever gives you drink from a cup of water in My\u00a0namebecause you are Christ’s, truly I say to you, he will not lose his reward. Mark 9:41.<\/p>\n

In Luke,<\/p>\n

The seventy returned with joy, saying, Lord, even the demons are obedient to us in Your\u00a0name. Jesus said to them, Do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are obedient to you, but rejoice rather that your\u00a0names\u00a0have been written in heaven. Luke 10:17, 20.<\/p>\n

‘Names\u00a0written in heaven’ are not those people’s their faith and charity.<\/p>\n

[6] Much the same is meant by ‘names\u00a0written in the Apocalypse,<\/p>\n

You have a few\u00a0names\u00a0also in Sardis, who have not soiled their garments. He who conquers will be clad in white garments and I will not blot his\u00a0name\u00a0out of the book of life; and I will confess his\u00a0name\u00a0before the Father and before His angels. Rev. 3:4, 5.<\/p>\n

Like wise in John,<\/p>\n

The one entering by the door is the shepherd of the sheep; he calls his own sheep by\u00a0name. John 10:2, 3.<\/p>\n

In Exodus,<\/p>\n

Jehovah said to Moses, I know you by\u00a0name. Exod. 33:12, 17.<\/p>\n

In John,<\/p>\n

Many believed in His\u00a0name, seeing His signs which He did. John 2:13.<\/p>\n

[7] In the same gospel,<\/p>\n

He who believes in Him is not judged: but he who does not believe is judged already because he has not be lifted in thename\u00a0of the only begotten Son of God. John 3:18.<\/p>\n

In Isaiah,<\/p>\n

They will fear the\u00a0name\u00a0of Jehovah from the west. Isa. 59:19.<\/p>\n

In Micah,<\/p>\n

All the peoples walk in the\u00a0name\u00a0of their God and we will walk in the\u00a0name\u00a0of our God. Micah 4:5.<\/p>\n

In Moses it says they were to worship Jehovah God in the place which He would choose and in which He would put Hisname. Deut. 12:5, 11, 14. Similar phrases occur in Isaiah 18:7 and Jeremiah 7:12, and in many other places besides these, such as Isa. 26:8, 13; 41:25; 43:7; 49:1; 50:10; 52:5; 26:16; Ezek. 20:14, 44; 36:21-23; Micah 5:4; Mal. 1:11; Deut. 10:8; Rev. 2:17; 3:12; 13:8; 14:11; 15:2; 17:8; 19:12, 13, 16; 22:3, 4.<\/p>\n

[8] The fact that Jehovah’s\u00a0name\u00a0means everything involved in the worship of Him, thus in the highest sense everything that goes out from the Lord, is clear in the Blessing,<\/p>\n

Jehovah bless you and keep you;
\nJehovah make His face shine upon you and be merciful to you;
\nJehovah lift up His face upon you and give you peace.
\nSo shall they put My\u00a0name\u00a0upon the sons of Israel. Num. 6:23-27.<\/p>\n

From all this one may now see what is meant by the following commandment in the Decalogue,<\/p>\n

You shall not take the\u00a0name\u00a0of your God in vain, for Jehovah will not hold him innocent who has taken His\u00a0name\u00a0in vain. Exod. 20:7.<\/p>\n

One may likewise see what is meant in the Lord’s Prayer by hallowed be Your\u00a0name, Matt. 6:9.<\/p>\n

Arcana Coelestia (Elliott) n. 2724<\/b><\/p>\n

2724. ‘And there he called on the\u00a0name\u00a0of [Jehovah,] the God of Eternity’ means worship from it. This is clear from the meaning of ‘calling on the\u00a0name\u00a0of God’ as worship, dealt with in 440. Those who belonged to the Ancient Church did not understand merely\u00a0name\u00a0by the word ‘name’ but the entire nature, see 144, 145, 340, 768, 1754, 1896, 2009. Thus by ‘thename\u00a0of God’ they understood everything in one embrace by which God was worshipped, consequently everything of love and faith. But once the internal aspect of worship perished and only the external was left people began to understand nothing else by ‘the\u00a0name\u00a0of God’ than the\u00a0name. Indeed they went so far as to worship the\u00a0name\u00a0itself, being quite indifferent to what the love and the faith were in which their worship was grounded. As a result of this nations began to identify themselves by the\u00a0names\u00a0of their gods, the Jews and Israelites setting themselves above the rest because they worshipped Jehovah. They made the utterance and the calling upon thename\u00a0itself the essential feature of worship; but in fact worship of the\u00a0name\u00a0alone is not worship at all, for that practice may exist even among the worst of people who in worshipping thename\u00a0alone become greater profaners.<\/p>\n

[2] Now because ‘the\u00a0name\u00a0of God’ means the entirety of worship, that is, the love and faith in their entirety from which He is worshipped, it is therefore clear what is meant by hallowed be Your\u00a0name\u00a0– in the Lord’s Prayer, Matt. 6:9, and what by the following words spoken by the Lord,<\/p>\n

You will be hated by everyone for My\u00a0name’s sake. Matt. 10:22.<\/p>\n

If two of you agree in My\u00a0name\u00a0on earth about anything they ask, it will be done for them by My Father who is in heaven. Where two or three are gathered in My\u00a0name, there am I in the midst of them. Matt. 18:19, 20.<\/p>\n

He who leaves houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields, for My\u00a0name’s sake, will receive a hundredfold and will be allotted the inheritance of eternal life. Matt. 19:29.<\/p>\n

Hosanna to the son of David! Blessed is he who comes in thename\u00a0of the Lord. Matt. 21:9.<\/p>\n

Jesus said, You will not see Me from now on until you say, Blessed is the one coming in the\u00a0name\u00a0of the Lord. Matt. 23:39.<\/p>\n

You will be hated by all nations for My\u00a0name’s sake. Then many will stumble and betray one another, and hate one another, and all for My\u00a0name’s sake.* Matt. 24:9, 10.<\/p>\n

As many as received Him, to them He gave power to be sons of God, to those believing in His\u00a0name, John 1:12.<\/p>\n

He who does not believe is judged already because he has not believed in the\u00a0name\u00a0of the only begotten Son of God. John 3:17, 18.<\/p>\n

Jesus said, Whatever you ask in My\u00a0name, I will do it. John 14:14, 15; 15:16; 16:23, 24, 26, 27.<\/p>\n

Jesus said, I have manifested Your\u00a0name\u00a0to men. John 17:6.<\/p>\n

Holy Father, keep them in Your\u00a0name\u00a0whom You have given Me, that they may be one as We are one. John 17:11, 12.<\/p>\n

I made known to them Your\u00a0name, and I will make known that the love with which You have loved Me may be in them, and I in them. John 17:26.<\/p>\n

That you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in His\u00a0name. John 20:37.<\/p>\n

There are in addition very many places in the Old Testament in which the\u00a0name\u00a0of Jehovah and of God is not used to mean thename\u00a0but love and faith in their entirety in which worship is grounded.<\/p>\n

[3] But those who worship the\u00a0name\u00a0alone, without love and faith, are spoken of in Matthew as follows,<\/p>\n

Many will say to Me on that day, Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy through Your\u00a0name, and cast out demons through Your\u00a0name, and do many mighty works in Your\u00a0name? But I will confess to them, I do not know you; depart from Me, you workers of iniquity. Matt. 7:22, 23.<\/p>\n

As has been stated, once the member of the Church from being internal became external, and began to make worship consist in a\u00a0name\u00a0alone, people no longer acknowledged one God but many. For it was a custom among the ancients to add something after the\u00a0name\u00a0of Jehovah and by doing that to call to mind some benefit or attribute of His, as in the present verse, ‘He called on the\u00a0name\u00a0of [Jehovah,] the God of Eternity’. Another example occurs in the next chapter,<\/p>\n

Abraham called the\u00a0name\u00a0of that place Jehovah Jireh (that is, Jehovah will see). Gen. 22:14.<\/p>\n

And the following, among others, are further examples,<\/p>\n

Moses built an altar and called the\u00a0name\u00a0of it Jehovah Nissi (that is, Jehovah is my banner). Exod. 17:15.<\/p>\n

Gideon built an altar to Jehovah and called it [the altar] of Jehovah Shalom (that is, of peace). Judg. 6:24.<\/p>\n

It was from this custom that those who made worship consist in a\u00a0name\u00a0alone came to acknowledge so many gods, and also that among the gentiles, especially those in Greece and Rome, so many gods came to be acknowledged and worshipped, whereas the Ancient Church from which those attributivenames\u00a0derived always worshipped but one God who was revered under so many\u00a0names, for the reason that by ‘name’ they understood the essential nature.
\n* These six words which Sw. apparently copied from the Schmidius Latin version do not occur in the original Greek.<\/p>\n

Apocalypse Revealed (Rogers) n. 81<\/b><\/p>\n

81. “‘And have labored for My\u00a0name’s sake and have not become weary.'” This symbolizes their effort and work in acquiring for themselves and also teaching the constituents of religion and its accompanying doctrine.
\nThe\u00a0name\u00a0of Jehovah or the Lord in the Word does not mean His\u00a0name, but everything by which He is worshiped. And because He is worshiped in accordance with doctrine in the church, His\u00a0name\u00a0means everything pertaining to doctrine, and in the broadest sense, everything pertaining to religion.
\nThese are the meanings of the\u00a0name\u00a0of Jehovah, and the reason is that in heaven the only\u00a0names\u00a0found are ones that reflect a person’s character, and God’s character includes everything by which He is worshiped.
\nOne who is not aware of this symbolic meaning of a\u00a0name\u00a0in the Word can understand it only as a\u00a0name; and in this alone there is nothing pertaining to worship and religion.
\n[2] Someone who keeps in mind, therefore, this symbolic meaning of “the\u00a0name\u00a0of Jehovah” when it is mentioned in the Word, will of himself understand its symbolic meaning in the following passages:<\/p>\n

In that day you will say: “Confess to Jehovah, call upon Hisname.” (Isaiah 12:4)<\/p>\n

…O Jehovah, we have waited for You; the desire of our soul is for Your\u00a0name…. …by You we make mention of Your\u00a0name. (Isaiah 26:8, 13)<\/p>\n

From the rising of the sun My\u00a0name\u00a0shall be called on. (Isaiah 41:25)<\/p>\n

…from the rising of the sun, even to its going down, My\u00a0nameshall be great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense shall be offered to My\u00a0name…; for My\u00a0name\u00a0shall be great among the nations…. …you profane (My\u00a0name) when you say, “The table of Jehovah is defiled….” But you sneer at (Myname)…, when you bring the stolen, the lame, and the sick. (Malachi 1:11-13)<\/p>\n

…all peoples walk in the\u00a0name\u00a0of their god, but we will walk in the\u00a0name\u00a0of Jehovah our God…. (Micah 4:5)<\/p>\n

Everyone who is called by My\u00a0name, for My glory I have created him, I have formed him…. (Isaiah 43:7)<\/p>\n

You shall not take the\u00a0name\u00a0of Jehovah your God in vain; …Jehovah will not hold him innocent who takes His\u00a0name\u00a0in vain. (Deuteronomy 5:11)<\/p>\n

They were to worship Jehovah in one place, where He should put His\u00a0name\u00a0(Deuteronomy 12:5, 11, 13, 14, 18, 16:2, 6, 11, 15, 16). And so on in many other places. Who does not see that the\u00a0name\u00a0in them does not mean simply a\u00a0name?
\n[3] It is the same with the\u00a0name\u00a0of the Lord in the New Testament, as in the following places:<\/p>\n

(Jesus said,) “You will be hated by all because of My\u00a0name. (Matthew 10:22; cf. 24:9, 10)<\/p>\n

…where two or three are gathered together in My\u00a0name, I am there in the midst of them. (Matthew 18:20)<\/p>\n

Everyone who has left houses, brothers, sisters…for My\u00a0name’s sake, shall receive a hundredfold, and…eternal life. (Matthew 19:29)<\/p>\n

As many as received Him, to them He gave the power to become children of God, to those who believe in His\u00a0name. (John 1:12)<\/p>\n

…many believed in His\u00a0name…. (John 2:23)<\/p>\n

He who does not believe is judged already, because he has not believed in the\u00a0name\u00a0of the only begotten Son of God. (John 3:17, 18)<\/p>\n

…believing (they will) have life in His\u00a0name. (John 20:31)<\/p>\n

Blessed is He who comes in the\u00a0name\u00a0of the Lord! (Matthew 21:9, 23:39; Luke 13:35, cf. 19:38)<\/p>\n

[4] In respect to His humanity the Lord is the\u00a0name\u00a0of the Father, as witness the following:<\/p>\n

Father, glorify Your\u00a0name. (John 12:28)<\/p>\n

Hallowed be Your\u00a0name\u00a0(and) Your kingdom come. (Matthew 6:9, 10)<\/p>\n

See also Exodus 23:20, 21,* Jeremiah 23:6,** Micah 5:3.***
\n“Name” in the case of other people refers to a quality of worship, as in the following:<\/p>\n

(A shepherd) calls his own sheep by (their)\u00a0name…. (John 10:3)<\/p>\n

You have a few\u00a0names\u00a0in Sardis…. (Revelation 3:4)<\/p>\n

I will write on him the\u00a0name\u00a0of My God and the\u00a0name\u00a0of the city of My God, the New Jerusalem…, and My new\u00a0name. (Revelation 3:12)<\/p>\n

And the like elsewhere.
\nIt can be seen from this now that the statement, “You have labored for My\u00a0name’s sake and have not become weary,” symbolizes their effort and work in acquiring for themselves and also teaching the constituents of religion and its accompanying doctrine.
\n*Behold, I send an Angel before you to keep you in the way and to bring you into the place which I have prepared. Beware of Him and obey His voice; do not provoke Him, for He will not pardon your transgressions; for My\u00a0name\u00a0is in Him.
\n**In His days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell safely; now this is His\u00a0name\u00a0by which He will be called: JEHOVAH OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.
\n***And He shall stand and feed His flock in the strength of Jehovah, in the majesty of the\u00a0name\u00a0of Jehovah His God; and they shall abide, for now He shall be great to the ends of the earth.<\/p>\n

True Christian Religion (Rose) n. 300<\/b><\/p>\n

300
\nThe nature of\u00a0names\u00a0in the spiritual world makes it clear that someone’s “name” does not mean her or his\u00a0name\u00a0alone but also her or his full nature. In that world, people all stop using the\u00a0names\u00a0they were given in baptism in this world and thenames\u00a0they received from their parents or their family. All there are\u00a0named\u00a0for what they are like. Angels get a\u00a0name\u00a0that indicates the moral and spiritual life they have. In fact, the Lord was referring to angels in the following passage:<\/p>\n

Jesus said, “I am the good shepherd. The sheep hear the shepherds voice and he calls his sheep by\u00a0name\u00a0and leads them out.” (John 10:3, 11)<\/p>\n

The same holds true in the following passage:<\/p>\n

I have a few\u00a0names\u00a0in Sardis who have not defiled their clothes. Upon the person who conquers I will write the\u00a0name\u00a0of the city New Jerusalem and my new\u00a0name. (Revelation 3:4, 12)<\/p>\n

“Gabriel” and “Michael” are not the\u00a0names\u00a0of two people in heaven – these\u00a0names\u00a0mean all the angels in heaven who have wisdom about the Lord and who worship him. The\u00a0names\u00a0of people and places in the Word do not mean people and places either; they mean aspects of the church.
\nEven in our world a “name” means more than just a\u00a0name\u00a0– it also means what someone is like. People’s natures get attached to their\u00a0names. We often say, “They’re doing it for their\u00a0name” or “to make a\u00a0name\u00a0for themselves.” “Those are big\u00a0names” means that those people are famous for characteristics they possess, such as creativity, scholarship, achievements, or the like.
\nIt is common knowledge that people who insult or libel other people’s\u00a0names\u00a0are in fact insulting or libeling the actions of the other people’s lives. The two are conceptually linked. Such attacks ruin the reputation of people’s\u00a0names. Likewise, someone who says the\u00a0name\u00a0of a monarch, a duke, or a great person with disrespect also dishonors the person’s majesty and dignity. It is equally true that someone who mentions anyone’sname\u00a0with a tone of contempt also disparages the deeds of that person’s life-this applies to everyone. Every country has laws that forbid us to abuse, attack, or insult anyone’s\u00a0name(meaning anyone’s nature and reputation).<\/p>\n

Divine Providence (Dole) n. 230<\/b><\/p>\n

230. The profanation of what is holy is referred to in the second of the Ten Commandments in the words, “You shall not profane the\u00a0name\u00a0of your God” [Exodus 20:7; Deuteronomy 5:11]; and the Lord’s prayer is telling us that we must not profane what is holy when it says, “Hallowed be your\u00a0name” [Matthew 6:9; Luke 11:2]. Hardly anyone in all Christendom knows what “the\u00a0name\u00a0of God” means. This is because people do not know that people in the spiritual world do not havenames\u00a0the way we do in this physical world. Rather, each individual is\u00a0named\u00a0for her or his own love and wisdom. As soon as we enter a community or a gathering of people, we are immediately given a\u00a0name\u00a0that expresses our nature. We arenamed\u00a0in a spiritual language that is essentially able to give a distinctive\u00a0name\u00a0to every individual thing, because every letter in its alphabet means something definite; and when many letters are combined into a single word, as happens with an individual’s\u00a0name, they include the whole state of that object. This is just one of the marvels of the spiritual world.
\n[2] We can see from this that in the Word, “the\u00a0name\u00a0of God” means both God and everything divine that is in him and that emanates from him. Since the Word is a divine emanation, it is a\u00a0name\u00a0of God; and since all the divine gifts that we refer to as the spiritual gifts of the church come from the Word, they too are a\u00a0name\u00a0of God.
\nThis enables us to see what “You shall not profane the\u00a0name\u00a0of your God” means in the second of the Ten Commandments, and what “Hallowed be your\u00a0name” means in the Lord’s Prayer.
\n“The\u00a0name\u00a0of God” and “the\u00a0name\u00a0of the Lord” mean much the same in many passages in the Word in both Testaments. See, for example, Matthew 7:22; 10:22; 18:5, 20; 19:29; 21:9; 24:9, 10; John 1:12; 2:23; 3:17, 18; 12:13, 28; 14:14, 15, 16; 16:23, 24, 26, 27; 17:6; and 20:31, among others, as well as a great many in the Old Testament.
\n[3] If you know the meaning of this “name,” then you can know the meaning of the Lord’s words, “Whoever accepts a prophet in the\u00a0name\u00a0of a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward. Whoever receives a righteous person in the\u00a0name\u00a0of a righteous person will receive a righteous person’s reward; and whoever gives one of these little ones something cold to drink in thename\u00a0of a disciple will not lose the reward” (Matthew 10:21 [10:41, 42]). If you understand the\u00a0name\u00a0of a prophet or a righteous person or a disciple to mean nothing but the prophet or the righteous person or the disciple, then the only meaning you get will be a literal one. You will not know, either, what is meant by the reward of the prophet or the reward of the righteous person or the reward for the cold drink given on behalf of the disciple. Yet the\u00a0name\u00a0and the reward of the prophet mean the blessed state of people who enjoy divine gifts of truth, and the\u00a0name\u00a0and the reward of the righteous person mean the blessed state of people who enjoy divine gifts of what is good, while the disciple means the state of people who have some of the spiritual gifts of the church, and the cold drink is any element of truth.
\n[4] We can also tell that the\u00a0name\u00a0means the nature of the state of love and wisdom, or of what is good and true, from these words of the Lord: “The one who comes in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. The doorkeeper opens to him and the sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by\u00a0name\u00a0and leads them out” (Matthew 10:2, 3 [John 10:2, 3]). “Calling sheep by\u00a0name” is teaching and leading every individual whose deeds are prompted by caring, and doing so in keeping with that individual’s state of love and wisdom. “The door” means the Lord, as we can tell from verse 9: “I am the door. Anyone who enters in by me will be saved” [John 10:9]. This shows that we need to turn to the Lord himself if we are to be saved, and that the one who does turn to him is a shepherd of his sheep. Anyone who does not turn to him is a thief and a robber, as it says in the first verse of the same chapter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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