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St Basil the Great, tr. Lowther Clarke, 1925
11. Rule 11: How One Manages Hatred of Sins. (R. 149)
An unpleasant and troublesome result always generates hatred of those who are the cause of it. So if a man is convinced of how many and great evils sins are the cause, automatically and from the heart he feels that hatred of them which he showed who said: “I hate and abhor iniquity.”1
Notes
- Ps. cxix. 163.