AC 6673 - Midwives; AC 6674 - His "Name"

AC 6673

That "midwives" denote the natural,
is because the natural receives
that which flows in from the Internal,
and thus as it were acts as a midwife.

AC 6674 [2, 8]

He who does not know
that a name denotes the quality and state
of the subject being treated of,
can believe that where a name is mentioned,
the name merely is meant;
thus when the Lord speaks of His "name,"
that it is merely the name,
when yet it is the quality of the worship,
that is, everything of faith and charity
by which He is to be worshiped, 
as in these passages:

Where two or three are gathered together in My name,
there am I in the midst of them.
(Matthew 18:20);
here the "name" is not meant,
but worship from faith and charity.

As many as received,
to them gave He power to be the sons of God,
to them that believe in His name.
(John 1:12);
here also by "name" is meant faith and charity,
whereby the Lord is worshiped.

These things have been written that you
may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God,
and that believing you may have life in His name.
(John 20:31);
where the sense is the same.

That the "name of Jehovah"
denotes everything by which He is worshiped,
thus in the supreme sense everything
that proceeds from the Lord,
is evident from the benediction:

Jehovah bless thee and keep thee,
Jehovah make His faces to shine upon thee,
and have mercy on thee;
Jehovah lift up His faces upon thee,
and give thee peace.
So shall they put My name upon the sons of Israel.
(Numbers 6:23-27)

From all this it is now clear what is meant
by this commandment of the Decalogue:

Thou shalt not take the name of thy God in vain;
for Jehovah will not hold him innocent
that takes His name in vain.
(Exodus 20:7);

also by
Hallowed be Thy name,
in the Lord's prayer (Matthew 6:9).