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When one stands before Caravaggio’s The Calling of Saint Matthew, the first question that arises before the light itself is the question of direction. The light that breaks through the darkness does not rest on the person who seems most likely; instead, it reaches toward an unexpected place. Why that person? Why that moment? The gospel always begins by quietly shaking the order that human beings..

Dans la Divine Comédie, Dante place les traîtres dans les ténèbres les plus profondes. C’est qu’il voyait dans la trahison un péché plus froid que la colère et plus effrayant encore que la violence. Connaître l’amour, puis s’en détourner ; voir la lumière, puis choisir soi-même la nuit : à ses yeux, c’est cette volonté-là qui conduit l’être humain dans l’abîme le plus profond. Ainsi, la trahison..

In The Divine Comedy, Dante places traitors in the deepest darkness. He saw betrayal as a sin colder than anger and more terrifying than violence. To know love and yet turn away from it, to see the light and yet choose the night for oneself—he believed this kind of will leads a person into the deepest abyss. Betrayal, therefore, is not a momentary mistake, but the direction of an inner life form..