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)

5604. 'Send the boy with me' means that he would be attached to him, that is to say, to the good of the Church represented by 'Judah'. This is clear from the meaning of 'sending with him' as being attached to him and not to the rest, for in what follows it is stated, 'I will be surety for him; from my hand you will require him'; and from the representation of Benjamin, to whom 'the boy' refers here, as interior truth, dealt with just above in 5600. The expression 'the boy' is used because in the Word that which is more internal, when compared with what is external, is called a boy or child, for the reason that more innocence is present in what is more internal than in what is more external, innocence being meant in the Word by 'a young child' and also by 'a boy (or child)', 5236.