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. . . the Messiah never called Jacob by the name "Israel."

Probably lest people would get confused as to whether he referred to all Israel, or the Northern Kingdom, or the person for whom the nation was a synechdoce.

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Correction to Post #609:

synechdoce synecdoche

(Or should it have been metonomy? I get confused without a dictionary, grammar, and thesaurus . . .)