eschatological contexts (e.g., Isa 60:19–20; cf. Rev 21:10–11). God, moreover, has come in Christ to bring light into the darkness (John 1:4–5, 9; 12:46; cf. Ps 27:1), a point Matthew has already emphasized in his quotation of Isa 9:2 (9:1, LXX) in 4:16 (“the people sitting in darkness have seen a great light”). In Paul, the metaphor also extends to Christians, who are described as “children of light” (Eph 5:8; 1 Thess 5:5). Another community on the edge of eschatology, the Qumran covenanters, also