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| Chapter IX. Of the anger which should be directed against ourselves.
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Chapter IX.
Of the anger which should be directed against
ourselves.
And some are commanded to
“be angry” after a wholesome fashion, but with our own
selves, and with evil thoughts that arise, and “not to
sin,” viz., by bringing them to a bad issue. Finally, the next
verse explains this to be the meaning more clearly: “The things
you say in your hearts, be sorry for them on your beds:”933
i.e., whatever you think of in your
hearts when sudden and nervous excitements rush in on you, correct and
amend with wholesome sorrow, lying as it were on a bed of rest, and
removing by the moderating influence of counsel all noise and
disturbance of wrath. Lastly, the blessed Apostle, when he made use of
the testimony of this verse, and said, “Be ye angry and sin
not,” added, “Let not the sun go down upon your wrath,
neither give place to the devil.”934
If it is dangerous for the sun of righteousness to go down upon our
wrath, and if when we are angry we straightway give place to the devil
in our hearts, how is it that above he charges us to be angry, saying,
“Be ye angry, and sin not”? Does he not evidently mean
this: be ye angry with your faults and your tempers, lest, if you
acquiesce in them, Christ, the sun of righteousness, may on account of
your anger begin to go down on your darkened minds, and when He departs
you may furnish a place for the devil in your
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