Patristic A.D. 430
“(Conf. l. x. c. xxiii. [34.]) Because they dislike being deceived, and like to deceive, they love light for discovering herself, and hate her for discovering them. Wherefore it shall be their punishment, that she shall manifest them against their will, and herself not be manifest unto them. They love the brightness of truth, they hate her discrimination; and therefore it follows, Neither cometh to the light, that his deeds should be reproved.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of John, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 3:19-21
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1845) ↗