AC 3305 - "And he called his name Jacob" (Genesis 25:26)

AC 3305 [2]
Those who confine themselves to the sense of the letter
suppose that in the Word Jacob is used to mean
every one of those people descended from Jacob,
and for that reason they apply to those people everything
that has been stated about Jacob either as history or as prophecy.
But the Word is Divine
in that first and foremost every single thing within it
has regard not just to one particular nation or people
but to the whole human race,
namely to everyone present, past, and future.
More than that, it has reference to the Lord's kingdom in heaven;
and in the highest sense to the Lord Himself.
This is what makes it a Divine Word.
If it were concerned with merely one particular nation
it would be human only
and would have nothing more of the Divine within it
than the existence among that nation of holy worship.