9310. Because My name is in the midst of him. That this signifies that from Him is all the good of love and truth of faith, is evident from the signification of the “name of Jehovah,” as being all in one complex by which God is worshiped (see n. 2724, 3006), thus all the good of love and truth of faith (n. 6674); and from the signification of “in the midst of him,” as being what is in Him, thus also what is from Him; for the good of love is of such a nature that what is in it, is also from it in others, because it has the power of communicating itself. For it is a characteristic of love that it wishes everything of its own to be out of itself in others; and as this is effected from the Divine Itself through and out of its Divine Human, therefore also the Lord as to the Divine Human is called “the name of Jehovah” (n. 6887, 8274).

[2] He who does not know what “name” signifies in the internal sense, may suppose that where the “name of Jehovah,” and the “name of the Lord,” are mentioned in the Word, the name alone is meant; when yet all the good of love and all the truth of faith which are from the Lord are meant thereby; as in Matthew:

If two of you shall agree in My name on earth as touching anything that they shall ask, it shall be done for them. Where two or three are gathered together in My name, there am I in the midst of them (Matthew 18:19-20)

Everyone that hath left houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or fields, for My name’s sake, shall receive a hundredfold, and shall inherit eternal life (Matthew 19:29).

As many as received Him, to them gave He power to be sons of God, even to them that believe in His name (John 1:12).

He that believeth not hath been judged already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only-begotten Son of God (John 3:18).

These things are written, that ye may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye may have life in His name (John 20:31).

In these passages, and in very many others, by “the name of the Lord” is signified all the good of love and truth of faith in the complex by which He is worshiped.

[3] Again:

If ye abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ye shall ask whatsoever ye will, and it shall be done unto you. Whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in My name, He will give it you (John 15:7, 16);

“to ask of the Father in My name” denotes to ask the Lord, as He Himself teaches in the same Evangelist:

Whatsoever ye shall ask in My name, that will I do. If ye shall ask anything in My name, I will do it (John 14:13-14);

“asking in the name of the Lord” denotes asking the Lord, because no one comes unto the Father except through the Lord (John 14:6); and because the Lord as to the Divine Human is Jehovah or the Father in a visible form (as was shown above (9303), n. 9303, 9306). Again:

The sheep hear His voice, and He calleth His own sheep by name, and leadeth them out (John 10:3);

“the sheep” denote those who are in the good of charity and of faith; “to hear His voice” denotes to obey His commandments; “to call by name, and lead them out” denotes to bestow heaven according to the good of love and of faith; for “the name, “when applied to persons, denotes their quality as to love and faith (n. 144, 145, 1754, 1896, 3421).

6887. This is My name forever. That this signifies that the Divine Human is the quality of the Divine Itself is evident from the signification of the name “God” as being all in one complex whereby God is worshiped, thus His quality (see n. 2724, 3006, 6674); and as the Divine Itself cannot be worshiped, because it cannot be approached either by faith or by love, being above every idea, according to the Lord’s words in John, “No man hath seen God at any time; the Only-begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He hath set Him forth” (John 1:18), and again, “Ye have neither heard His voice at any time, nor seen His shape” (John 5:37), therefore it is the Divine Human, because the quality of the Divine Itself, which can be approached and worshiped.

[2] That the Divine Human is the “name of Jehovah” is plain in John:

Jesus said, Father, glorify Thy name; then came there a voice from heaven, I have both glorified, and will glorify again (John 12:28); here the Lord as to the Divine Human calls Himself the “name of the Father.”

In Isaiah:

I Jehovah have called Thee in righteousness, and I will take hold of Thy hand, because I will keep thee, and give Thee for a covenant to the people, for a light of the Gentiles; to open the blind eyes, to bring out the bound from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house. I am Jehovah; this is My name; and My glory will I not give to another (Isaiah 42:6-8).

Here and in the preceding verses of the chapter, the Lord is openly treated of; that He it is who is meant by the “name of Jehovah” is plain from the fact that it is said, “My glory will I not give to another”; which words when spoken of the Lord mean giving glory to Himself, because they are one.

[3] And in Moses:

Behold I send an angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared. Take heed of his faces and hear his voice, for he will not endure your transgression; for My name is in the midst of him (Exodus 23:20-21).

That by the “angel of Jehovah” is here meant the Lord as to the Divine Human, see n. 6831; and as the Divine Human is the quality of the Divine Itself, therefore it is said that “the name of Jehovah is in the midst of him.” In the Lord’s Prayer also, by Our Father in the heavens; hallowed be Thy name (Matthew 6:9),

is meant the Lord as to the Divine Human; and also all in one complex whereby He is to be worshiped.