According to Swedenborg, a person's name in the Bible represents his or her entire spiritual nature, their whole state of love (good or evil) and thought (from heavenly wisdom to infernal insanity). This is why the name of the Lord is so important; it represents and embodies His perfect love and perfect wisdom, which is everything that we should worship and follow. It's easy to see that names are important in the Bible. Jehovah changed Abram and Sarai to Abraham and Sarah, changed Jacob to Israel and included in the Ten Commandments the order that believers "shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain." In the New Testament, Zacharias was told to name John the Baptist "John," and both Joseph (Matthew 1:21) and Mary (Luke 1:31) were told to name Jesus "Jesus." Jesus himself renamed Simon as Peter, and included the phrase "hallowed be thy name" in the Lord's prayer.

(Odkazy: Luke 1)

826. 19:14 And the hosts in heaven followed Him on white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. This symbolizes angels in the New Christian Heaven, who, being conjoined with the Lord, have a deeper understanding of the Word and so possess truths that are pure and genuine.

The hosts in heaven mean angels who possess Divine truths and goods (no. 447). Heaven here means the New Christian Heaven, referred to in nos. 612[1-4], 613, 626, 659, 661 above. This is the heaven meant because it is the new heaven foretold in the book of Revelation. To follow the Lord means, symbolically, to be conjoined with Him (no. 621). The white horses on which John saw them symbolize a deeper understanding of the Word, as in no. 820 above. The fine linen, white and clean, symbolizes truth that is pure and genuine obtained through the Word from the Lord (no. 814). We are also told regarding the New Church in verse 8 of this chapter that it would be clothed in fine linen, clean and bright. So we are told the same here as well regarding the New Christian Heaven, through which that church will descend from the Lord.