contrary to charity, but charity teacheth how it shall be had both
in a man's self and in his even Christian;[88] for a man should
[not] hate sin [so that he destroy his kind, but so that he destroy
the sin and the appetite of sin] in his kind. And, as against our
even Christian, we ought to hate sin in him, and to love him; and of
this hatred speaketh David in the psalm, where he saith thus: "With
perfect hatred I hated them."[89] And in another psalm he saith that
"he had in hatred all wicked ways."[90] Thus it is well proved that,
ere Zebulun was born, Judah and Issachar were both born. For but if
a man have had charity and ghostly joy in his feeling first, he may
in no wise feel this perfect hatred of sin in his affection. For
Judah, that is to say, charity, teacheth us how we shall hate sin in
ourself and in our brethren; and Issachar, that is to say, ghostly
feeling of joy in God, teacheth us why we shall hate sin in ourself
and in our brethren. Judah biddeth us hate sin and love the kind;
and Issachar biddeth us destroy the sin and save the kind; and thus
it falleth for to be that the kind may be made strong in God and in
ghostly things by perfect hatred and destroying of sin. And
therefore is Zebulun cleped in the story "a dwelling stead of
strength."[91] And Leah said in his birth: "My husband shall now
dwell with me";[92] and so it is that God, that is the true husband
of our soul, is dwelling in that soul, strengthening it in the
affection with ghostly joy and sweetness in His love, that
travaileth busily to destroy sin in himself and in others by perfect
hatred of the sin and all the kind of sin. And thus it is said how
Zebulun is born.