 Augustine goes on to examine my people who speak the truth are often hated for it, a situation we see often today. Why then does the truth give birth to hatred? And why do people take for an enemy your man who preaches the truth? It must be that this is how they love the truth, they love something else, and they want what they love to be the truth, and because they do not want to be deceived, they do not want to be convinced that they are wrong. So they hate the truth because of the thing they love in truth's place. They love the truth when it gives them light, but they hate it when it rebukes them, because they do not want to be deceived, but they do want to deceive others. They love truth when it shows itself to them, but they hate it when it shows them to themselves.