Arcana Coelestia #4568
4568. 'And God said to him, Your name is Jacob' means the nature of the Lord's external Divine Natural. This is clear from the meaning of 'name' as the essential nature, dealt with in 144, 145, 1754, 1896, 2009, 2724, 3006, 3421, and from the representation of 'Jacob' as the Lord's Divine Natural, often dealt with already. The reason for calling it external is that 'Israel' is the Lord's Divine internal Natural, dealt with immediately below.
