* HELPFUL NOTES
5:14 — It is not entirely clear what Paul quotes here. Some think it is a paraphrase of Isaiah 60:1, or Daniel 12:2. Others think that this may have been part of an early Christian hymn.
6:14-17 — Paul uses a visual imagery that would be very familiar to his whole audience: a Roman soldier. This imagery of the “armor of God” is first used in Isaiah 11:5, and 59:17, and then later used in the Apocryphal book, called the Wisdom of Solomon (5:17-20).