AC 10276 - The Word is most holy, and that its literal sense is holy from its internal sense, but that apart from this it is not holy.

AC 10276 [9]
As the Jewish nation did not acknowledge anything holy in the Word
except in the mere sense of its letter,
which they completely separated from the internal sense,
they fell into such darkness
that they did not recognize the Lord when He came into the world.
. . . Therefore unless the Lord had come into the world
and opened the interior things of the Word,
the communication with the heavens by means of the Word
would have been broken;
and then the human race on this earth would have perished,
for a person can think no truth and do no good except from heaven,
that is, through heaven from the Lord;
and the Word is that which opens heaven.