Hating The Light

Qui male agit odit lucem... Nota, quod lucem odiunt tria genera hominum, scilicet pigri; lob vigesimo quarto: Ipsi fuerunt rebelles lumini , nescierunt vias eius nec reversi sunt per semitas eius. Infirmi; primi Regum tertio exemplum de Heli, qui non poterat videre lucernam, donec exstingueretur. Malefici; unde hic, loannis tertio: Omnis, qui male agit odit lucem. Odit piger lucem, quia ipsum excitat; infirmus, quia cruciat; maleficus, quia ipsum manifestat. Sanctus Bonaventura, Collationes In Evangelium Ioannem, Caput IV, Collatio XIV Source: Here, p554

He who does evil hates the light...1 Note that there are three types of men who hate the light. Firstly the unwilling, in the twenty fourth chapter of Job, 'They were rebels against the light, they did not acknowledge His ways, nor did they return on His paths.' 2 Secondly the weak, as in the third chapter of the first book of Kings, with the example of Eli, who was not able to see the light, and then it was extinguished. 3 Finally there are those who do evil, whence it says in the third chapter of John, 'All who do evil hate the light.' 4 The unwilling man hates the light because it makes demands of him, the weak man because it troubles him, the evil doer because it exposes him. Saint Bonaventura, Observations On The Gospel Of Saint John, Chapter 4 1 Job 8.11 2 Job 24.13 3 1 Kings 3.2-3 4 Jn 3.20