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1 Mose 35:10

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10 Und Gott sprach zu ihm: Dein Name ist Jakob; dein Name soll hinfort nicht Jakob heißen, sondern Israel soll dein Name sein. Und er gab ihm den Namen Israel.

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Arcana Coelestia #4569

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4569. 'Your name will no longer be called Jacob' means that it would no longer be solely external. This is clear from what has been stated immediately above and from what now follows concerning 'Israel'.

  
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Arcana Coelestia #3421

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3421. 'And he called them names' means the essential nature of them. This is clear from the meaning of 'calling the names' as the essential nature, dealt with in 144, 145, 1754, 1896, 2009, 2724, 3006, 3237. And since calling the names or the name means the essential nature, the expression calling without the addition of 'the name' therefore means in the internal sense of the Word to be of some such particular nature, as in Isaiah,

Hear this, O house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel and who came out of the waters of Judah. For they are called after the city of holiness, and upon the God of Israel they place their reliance. Isaiah 48:1-2.

Here 'being called after the city of holiness' stands for being of some particular nature. And in Luke,

Behold, you will conceive in the womb and will bear a son, and you will call His name Jesus. He will be great and will be called Son of the Most High. Luke 1:31-32.

'Being called Son of the Most High' stands for His Essential Being (Esse).

  
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