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Interestingly, in the earlier, closely parallel passage in 1 Thessalonians 5:4-11, Paul appeals to the Thessalonians to put on "the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation" (vs. 8). Since the Thessalonians as Christians are "not of the night or of darkness," but are "all children of the light and children of the day," so "the breastplate of faith and love and \[the\] helmet of \[the\] hope of salvation" are evidently aptly describable as "the armor of light." Nor does this create any difficulty for Paul's later identification of "the armor of light" in Romans with Jesus Christ himself. For, as the orthodox theologians rightly recognized, the _media salutis_ are to be distinguished into _media s. exhibit ivaexhibitiva_ (i.e., word and sacraments) and _medium s. apprehensivum_ (i.e., faith). Thus it is entirely possible to say that "the armor of light" admits of an analogous distinction, according to which Jesus Christ himself is the primal _medium s. exhibitivum_, while faith, love, and hope are the corresponding primal/primary _media s. apprehensiva_.