The number "two" has two different meanings in the Bible. In most cases "two" indicates a joining together or unification. This is easy to see if we consider the conflicts we tend to have between our "hearts" and our "heads" -- between what we want and what we know. Our "hearts" tell us that we want pie with ice cream for dinner; our "heads" tell us we should have grilled chicken and salad. If we can bring those two together and actually want what's good for us, we'll be pretty happy. We're built that way -- with our emotions balanced against our intellect -- because the Lord is built that way. His essence is love itself, or Divine Love, the source of all caring, emotion and energy. It is expressed as Divine Wisdom, which gives form to that love and puts it to work, and is the source of all knowledge and reasoning. In His case the two aspects are always in conjunction, always in harmony. It's easy also to see how that duality is reflected throughout creation: plants and animals, food and drink, silver and gold. Most importantly, it's reflected in the two genders, with women representing love and men representing wisdom. That's the underlying reason why conjunction in marriage is such a holy thing. So when "two" is used in the Bible to indicate some sort of pairing or unity, it means a joining together. In rare cases, however, "two" is used more purely as a number. In these cases it stands for a profane or unholy state that comes before a holy one. This is because "three" represents a state of holiness and completion (Jesus, for instance, rose from the tomb on the third day), and "two" represents the state just before it.

1304. “我们要建造一座城和一座塔” 表他们编造一种教义和一种敬拜. 这从接下来论述的 “一座城” 和 “一座塔” 的含义清楚看出来. 教会有这样的性质, 当对邻之仁离去, 我欲取而代之时, 信之教义根本没有任何意义, 只会沦为自我崇拜. 人们也不觉得敬拜有什么神圣可言, 除非它是为了自我的缘故, 因而是自我崇拜. 一切我欲都具有这样的本质. 事实上, 凡爱己过于爱他人者不仅憎恨所有不顺从他的人, 只在他们顺从时, 才会对其表现出好感, 而且若不受到约束, 还会向前直冲, 甚至凌驾于神之上. 若放任自流, 这便是我欲的本质, 这一点已实实在在向我显明. 这就是 “一座城和一座塔” 的含义. 我欲和源于它的一切恶欲是所有事物中最肮脏, 最亵渎的, 恰是地狱本身最真实的写照. 谁都能由此推断出含有此类事物的敬拜具有何种性质.