27 Gk. συμμέτοϰοɩ.
27Gk. συμμέτοϰοɩ.
28This is one of a series of rhetorical questions introduced by the admonition: “Do not be mismated (έτεϱοζυγοῦντες) with unbelievers.”
29Cf. 1QS 3.18-25, where the human race is divided between the lots of the prince of light and the angel of darkness, so that the “sons of light” practice truth and righteousness while the “sons of darkness” practice falsehood and iniquity; also 1QM, which lays down the “rule” for the end-time war between the sons of light and the sons of darkness.
30Still less is there any need to detect the influence of Zoroastrian dualism here (cf. R. Reitzenstein, Das iranische Erlösungsmysterium, pp. 6, 55 [n. 1], 112, 135-39).
31With “now you are light in the Lord” cf. Matt. 5:14-16.