Francis Patrick Kenrick

The manifestation of Christ in the flesh is to some the occasion of corporal sight, and to many of spiritual illumination ; to others it serves as an occasion of hlindness. By a just judgment those who see — who have opportunities of knowledge — become blind, through pride and prejudice. He discriminates the case of believers, who acknowledge their blindness, from that of the proud, who imagine that they see, and therefore are the more blinded. St. Augustin.