NJHD 261 - The Word is written by correspondences, and thus by representatives.

NJHD 261
They who despise the Word
on account of the apparent simplicity and rudeness of its style,
and who fancy that they would receive the Word,
if it were written in a different style,
are in a great error.
(AC 8783)

The mode and style of writing,
which prevailed amongst the most ancient people,
was by representatives and significatives.
(AC 605, 1756, 9942)

The ancient wise men were delighted with the Word,
because of the representatives and significatives therein . . ..
(AC 2592, 2593)

If a man of the Most Ancient Church had read the Word,
he would have seen the things which are in the internal sense clearly,
and those which are in the external sense obscurely.
(AC 4493)

The sons of Jacob were brought into the land of Canaan,
because all the places in that land,
from the most ancient times,
were made representative.
(AC 1585, 3686, 4447, 5136, 6516)

And thus that the Word might there be written,
in which Word those places were to be mentioned
for the sake of the internal sense.
(AC 3686, 4447, 5136, 6516)

But nevertheless the Word was changed,
for the sake of that nation,
as to the external sense,
but not as to the internal sense.
(AC 10453, 10461, 10603, 10604)