Sin And Seeing

Et omnis qui peccat non vidit eum, nec cognovit eum. Visionem dicit et cognitionem fidei, qua justi etiam in hac vita Deum videre delectantur, donec ad ipsam speciem apertae visionis ejus in futuro perveniant, de qua supra dicitur: Quonaim videbimus eum sicuti est. Omnis ergo qui peccat, non vidit eum, nec cognovit. Si enim gustasset et vidisset quam suavis est Dominus, nequaquam se peccando a videnda ejus gloria segregaret. Et in quantum justi memoriam abundantiae suavitatis ejus eructant, et in justitia ejus exsultant, in tantum se a peccatis abstinendo justitiae ejus incommutabili et incomparabili concordare satagunt. Sanctus Beda, In Epistolam Sancti Joannis Source: Migne PL 93 100d-101a

And everyone who sins does not see Him, nor has known Him. 1 He speaks of the vision and knowledge of faith, by which even in this life the righteous may delight in the seeing of God, until to the open sight of His face they come in the future, concerning which it is was said before, 'Because we shall see Him even as He is.' 2 Everyone who sins, then, does not see Him, nor has he known Him. Indeed if he had tasted and seen how sweet is the Lord, 3 he would never have been separated by his sinning from the vision of His glory. And insofar as the righteous burst forth with the memory of the abundance of His sweetness and exult in His righteousness, 4 so do they by abstaining from sins abound harmoniously in his changeless and incomparable righteousness. Saint Bede, Commentary On The First Letter of Saint John 1 1 Jn 3.6 2 1 Jn 3.2 3 Ps 33.9 4 Ps 144.7