They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not its ways, nor abide in its paths.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Light of reason and humanity. (Calmet)
Pineda understands that they have sought darkness, (ver. 14.) to do evil. But this expression would be too harsh. (Calmet)
Heretics, acting against their own conscience, are stricken with blindness, so that they see not the truth. (St. Gregory xvi. 26.) (Worthington)
70. Very often wicked people at once know the right things that they ought to follow, and yet neglect to follow what they know; and so they are ‘rebellious against the light,’ in that following their desires, they contemn the good that they know. They then that do wrong not from ignorance, but pride, present the shield of their exaltation against the darts of truth, that they may not be stricken in heart to their good. By which same pride of theirs it is brought to pass, that whereas they will not do the things that they know, neither do they now know the good they should do, but that their own blindness should utterly exclude them from the light of truth. And hence it is fitly subjoined,
They know not the ways thereof, nor have returned by the paths thereof.
71. For they that are first rebels knowing it, are afterwards blinded so as not to know; as it is said of certain, Because that when they knew God they glorified Him not as God, neither were thankful. [Rom 1, 21] Of whom i...
