AR 490 - two witnesses, two essentials

AR 490
And I will give unto My two witnesses,
(Revelation 11:3)
signifies those who confess and acknowledge from the heart
that the Lord is the God of heaven and earth,
and that His Human is Divine,
and who are conjoined to Him
by a life according to the precepts of the Decalogue.
The reason why these are here meant by "the two witnesses," is,
because these two are the two essentials of the New Church.
That the first essential,
that the Lord is the God of heaven and earth,
and that His Human is Divine,
is "a testimony," and consequently,
that they are "witnesses" who confess and acknowledge it in the heart,

That the second essential of the New Church,
which is conjunction with the Lord
by a life according to the precepts of the Decalogue,
is "a Testimony," is manifest from the fact
that the Decalogue is called "the Testimony" . . . .

Something shall here be said concerning conjunction with the Lord
by a life according to the precepts of the Decalogue.
There are two tables upon which those precepts are written,
one for the Lord, the other for mankind.
The first table, teaches that many gods are not to be worshiped, but one;
the second table, that evils are not to be done;
therefore, when one God is worshiped,
and a person does not do evils,
conjunction takes place;
for so far as a person desists from evils,
that is, does the work of repentance,
so far he is accepted by God, and does good from Him.
But who now is the one God?
A trine or triune God is not one God
when this trine and triune is in three Persons;
but He, in whom the trine or triune is in one Person, is one God,
and that God is the Lord.

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From the Merriam-Webster Dictionary
testimony
a (1) : the tablets inscribed with the Mosaic law
(2) : the ark containing the tablets
b : a divine decree attested in the Scriptures

witness
1 : attestation of a fact or event - testimony
2 : one that gives evidence