“... 11.4 On the day when you were one, you became two. But when you become two, what will you do? This saying forms a contrast to 11.3. The former referred to those achieving great things going on to do even greater things. This saying appears to lament what has happened to the fallen, and to wonder what further catastrophes might happen to them. In the first sentence, the language is a little awkward, but the reference seems to be to a kind of fall in which the primordial unity was fractured into a duality. The ‘becoming two’ is based on Gen. 2.21–22, with a play on Gen. 2.24: instead of the two becoming one, the one has become two. This is the fractured situation in which the fallen currently exist (see further the Introduction, § 10.1, above). But—Jesus imagines—if this lapse was possible in an ideal state, surely now that the situation is worse, ‘you’ could plummet again into a yet more disastrous condition. ...”