A Clash Of Truths

Quae cum abiissent, ecce quidam de custodibus venerunt in civitatem, et nuntiaverunt principibus sacerdotum omnia quae facta fuerunt. Simplex animi qualitas, et indocta hominum rusticitas, saepe veritatem rei, ut est, sine fraude manifestat. At contra versuta malignitas, et exercitata pravae mentis nequitia, dolos versando falsitatem verisimilibus verbis, pro ipso vero commendare decertat, sibique in assensum plures convertere et coadunare festinat. Rabanus Maurus, Commentariorum In Matthaeum, Liber VIII Source: Migne PL 107.1150b

When they had gone, behold some of the soldiers came into the city and announced to the elders among the priests all that had happened. 1 A simple quality of soul and an uneducated rusticity of men often reveals the truth of a thing without any deceit. On the contrary, clever wickedness and the evil exertion of a depraved mind, active in deceit for falsity with words that seem to be true, strives to be believed as the truth and hastens to turn and to snare many to assent to itself. Rabanus Maurus, Commentary On The Gospel of Saint Matthew, Book 8 1 Mt 28.11