Whether it is blinding or suicide that he is contemplating, Oidipous now at last begins to put in words his understanding of what has occurred, and yet his addressing himself to “light” suggests that he incorrectly assigns the revelation of which he has been made the object (πέφασμαι) to the light of day rather than Apollo. From his error the audience will infer that it should distinguish two kinds of “light” from one another along with the forms of vision appropriate to each. The light of truth is not coincident with the clarity of ocular vision whose medium is sunlight; it is coincident, rather, with the god’s words conveyed via the medium of prophecy. [Mp] [Mi]