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.

78. Et que tu ne peux supporter les méchants, signifie qu'ils ne souffrent pas que les maux soient appelés biens, ni que les biens soient appelés maux, parce que cela est contre les vrais de la doctrine. Que ce soit là ce qui est signifié par ces paroles, on le voit clairement par celles qui suivent, par lesquelles il est signifié qu'ils scrutent les choses qui, dans l'Église, sont dites être des biens et des vrais, lorsque cependant ce sont des maux et des faux. Savoir si les biens sont des biens ou des maux appartient à la doctrine, et est au nombre de ses vrais, tandis que faire les biens ou les maux appartient à la vie ; voilà pourquoi cela est dit de ceux qui regardent principalement les vrais de la doctrine, et non les biens de la vie, No. 73. Par les méchants, dans le sens spirituel, il est entendu non pas les méchants, mais les maux, parce que ce sens fait abstraction des personnes.