“... 24.3 There is light within a luminous person (Co: person of light). The special designation ‘luminous’, which presumably cannot be a characterization of every human being, suggests that the elect are those who especially possess the light. The Coptic phrase ‘person of light’ appears in a mysterious saying, in a clearly exclusive sense (in parallel with ‘the pure’), in Apocryphon of James 10.4; cf. also 1 Enoch 5.8: ‘and there will be a light in the illuminated man, and intelligence in the wise man.’ There is a christological dimension to the light, in that the light is an extension in some sense of the person of Jesus. [...] 24.3 If he does not give light, he is darkness. There is ambiguity in the final phrase, which could be impersonal (‘there is darkness’). On the personal reading, which is perhaps more likely, the disciple who fails to act appropriately not only becomes ineffective, but actually partakes in the world of perdition. ...”