Patristic A.D. 407
“(Hom. xxviii. 2) As if He said, So far from their having sought for it, or laboured to find it light itself hath come to them, and they have refused to admit it; Men loved darkness rather than light. Thus He leaves them no excuse. He came to rescue them from darkness, and bring them to light; who can pity him who does not choose to approach the light when it comes unto him?”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of John, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 3:19-21
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1845) ↗