1152. Vers. 3, 4. Et les fils de Gomer : Aschkenas, et Riphath, et Thogarmah. Et les fils de Javan : Elischah, et Tharschisch, Kittim, et Dodanim.

Les fils de Gomer signifient aussi ceux qui ont eu un culte externe, mais dérive de celui qui était chez la nation de Gomer, Aschkenas, Riphath et Thogarmah furent autant des nations chez lesquelles exista un tel culte, et par lesquelles sont aussi signifiés autant de points de doctrine, qui furent des rites, dérivés du culte externe chez Gomer. Les fils de Javan en signifient encore d'autres qui ont eu un culte externe dérivé du culte qui était chez la nation de Javan. Elischah, Tharschisch, Kittim et Dodanim furent autant de nations chez lesquelles exista un tel culte, et par lesquels aussi sont signifiés autant de points de doctrine qui furent des rites, dérivés du culte externe chez Javan.

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.