224. And my new name. That this signifies, that they will also acknowledge the Divine Human of the Lord, is evident from the signification of I will write upon him My new name, as being the acknowledgment of the Lord's Divine Human. To write upon any one denotes to implant in the life (as may be seen above, n. 222), here to implant in faith from charity, because that faith is treated of in what is written to the angel of this church (see above, n. 203); and to implant in that faith denotes acknowledgment in heart. The reason why the new name of the Lord denotes His Divine Human is, that this prophetic book, called the Apocalypse, treats of those who will be in the New Jerusalem, and of those who will not be in it, and not of the successive states of the church as is usually believed (see above, n. 5); and those who will be in the New Jerusalem are all those who will acknowledge the Divine Human of the Lord; therefore it is also said, in The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem, towards the end, "That there is a Trine in the Lord, namely, the Divine Itself, the Divine Human and the proceeding Divine, is an arcanum from heaven, and is for those who will be in the holy Jerusalem" (n. 297). That this is the new name of the Lord is evident from the fact that it was not before acknowledged in the church.
What is further meant by the name of Jehovah, of the Lord, and of Jesus Christ in the Word may be seen above (n. 26, 102, 135, 148); and that the Divine Human of the Lord is meant (n. 26 and 102). The reason why this is meant by the name of Jehovah is, that name in the Word signifies the quality of a state and thing (as may be seen above, n. 148); and the Divine quality by which all things were created and made in the heavens and in the earths is the Lord's Divine Human; as it is also said in John:
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and God was the Word. All things were made by him, and without him was not anything made that was made. And the world was made by him. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us; and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth" (i. 1, 2, 3, 10, 14).
From these considerations it is evident why it is that by the name of Jehovah is meant the Lord's Divine Human. That this is meant in the Word by the name of Jehovah, the Lord Himself shows in John:
Jesus said, "Father, glorify thy name; and there came a voice from heaven, saying, I both have glorified it, and will glorify it again" (xii. 28).
To glorify is to make Divine. And again:
Jesus said, "I have manifested thy name unto men. I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it" (xvii. 6, 26).
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