“What I have now said in regard to abstaining from wanton looks should be carefully…”
What I have now said in regard to abstaining from wanton looks should be carefully observed, with due love for the persons and hatred of the sin, in observing, forbidding, reporting, proving, and punishing of all other faults.
Augustine of Hippo · Letters · NPNF1 I, Letters, Letter CCXI (to the nuns of Hippo), 11
The rule he lays down for how the community is to correct itself, and the origin of the sentence about loving the sinner and hating the sin - which he never wrote in that form, and which is a rule for a convent’s discipline rather than a maxim about the world.
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The project holds the volume this row cites, NPNF series 1 vol. 1, and the build matches these words against its bytes at every rebuild. It is the nearest thing in this volume to cum dilectione hominum et odio vitiorum, and the popular English form is not in it.
Read in Cunningham, NPNF series 1 vol. 1 (1886) · J. G. Cunningham, M.A.
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