DIDYMUS OF ALEXANDRIA'S ENARRATION ON THE THIRD EPISTLE OF SAINT JOHN
A Ver. 11. “Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doeth good is of God; but he that doeth evil hath not seen God.”
Since there is no communion of light with darkness, nor concord of Christ with Belial, he who does good both practically and contemplatively, having Christ the God, who is the true light, is far from darkness and Belial. But also, since evil is contrary to doing good, the evildoer, by the very act of so operating, being of Belial and of darkness, has not seen God, nor has he any knowledge of Him according to any quality. For everyone who sins has not seen God, nor known Him. B And since seeing is a bodily function, and not seeing consists in using or not using the sense of sight, when some sensible object is seen even by the one who does evil, if he has sight; and if he who is deprived of sight does not see, even if he be a good man: it is indubitably shown that God is not a body. For when the doer of good, because he has a pure heart, sees God, although he be deprived of carnal sight, while he who does evil does not see Him, even though his physical sight be exceedingly sharp; it is proven from this (that is, from the discourse on doing good and doing evil) that things which do not coexist are contrary. Likewise, it is demonstrated from the saying: “Depart from evil and do good,” and from other similar expressions in the divine Scripture.
ENARRATION OF DIDYMUS THE ALEXANDRIAN ON THE EPISTLE OF BLESSED JUDE THE APOSTLE
Ver. 4. “For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, etc.”
C Truly, because Jesus once delivered the people from the land of Egypt and subsequently destroyed those who did not believe. Certain ungodly men, using the divine Scripture with a certain deceit and malice, D pretend to be vindicated. This, however, if one should compare the enarrations of Didymus with the scholia more accurately, will escape no one: that the composers of the scholia have followed Didymus in many places. ...so that he took upon himself to explain not only the fourth, but the fifth verse of the Epistle at the same time.