“Who leave the straight path, etc. Beautifully he has opposed dark ways to the straight path, because indeed the journey of right action is performed in light and leads to the joys of the supreme light. As the Lord says: Everyone who does evil hates the light and does not come to the light, so that his deeds may not be…”
Bede, 8th c. — Commentary on Proverbs
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13Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;