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| Chapter V. How calm a monk ought to be.
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Chapter V.
How calm a monk ought to be.
And so a monk aiming at
perfection, and desiring to strive lawfully in his spiritual combat,
should be free from all sin of anger and wrath, and should listen to
the charge which the “chosen vessel” gives him. “Let
all anger,” says he, “and wrath, and clamour, and evil
speaking, be taken away from among you, with all
malice.”927
When he says,
“Let all anger be taken away from you,” he excepts none
whatever as necessary or useful for us. And if need be, he should at
once treat an erring brother in such a way that, while he manages to
apply a remedy to one afflicted with perhaps a slight fever, he may not
by his wrath involve himself in a more dangerous malady of blindness.
For he who wants to heal another’s wound ought to be in good
health and free from every affection of weakness himself, lest that
saying of the gospel should be used to him, “Physician, first
heal thyself;”928
and lest, seeing
a mote in his brother’s eye, he see not the beam in his own eye,
for how will he see to cast out the mote from his brother’s eye,
who has the beam of anger in his own eye?929
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