Light And Darkness

Et lux in tenebris lucet, cum peccatores fecit vera cognoscere. Et tenebrae eam non comprehenderunt: quia infidelitatis tenebris obcaecati non cognoscunt: Genesis primo: Tenebrae erant super faciem abyssi, id est, infidelitas in facie cordis humani. Unde ad Ephesios quinto: Fuistis aliquando tenebrae, nunc autem lux in Domino; primae Ioannis primo: Deus lux est, et tenebrae in eo non sunt ullae. Si dixerimus, quoniam societatem habemus cum eo et in tenebris ambulamus; mentimur et veritatem non fecimus. Et per hoc eliditur error ille, qui posuit, omnia esse a fortuna, et non esse providentiam, nec Deum cognoscere acta nostra. Sanctus Bonaventura, Commentarius In Evangelium Ioannem, Caput I Source: Here, p249

'The light shines in the darkness,' 1 when it tries to make sinners know the truth. 'And the darkness was not able to grasp it,' since being blinded with the darkness of faithlessness they did not know. In the first chapter of Genesis, 'Darkness was on the face of the abyss,' 2 that is, faithlessness on the face of the human heart. Whence in the fifth chapter of Ephesians: 'You were once in darkness, now you are light in the Lord.' 3 In the first chapter of the first letter of John, 'God is light and there is no darkness at all in Him. If we say that we have a relationship with Him and we walk in darkness, we lie and do not do what is true.' 4 And with this that error is crushed down which has claimed that everything is by chance, and there is no providence, nor does God know our deeds. Saint Bonaventura, Commentary On The Gospel Of Saint John, Chapter 1 1 Jn 1.5 2 Gen 1.2 3 Ephes 5.8 4 1 Jn 1.5-6