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| Chapter XIII. That we should not retain our anger even for an instant.
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Chapter XIII.
That we should not retain our anger even for an
instant.
Or how can we think that
the Lord would have it retained even for an instant, since He does not
permit us to offer the spiritual sacrifices of our prayers, if we are
aware that another has any bitterness against us: saying, “If
then thou bringest thy gift to the altar and there rememberest that thy
brother hath aught against thee, leave there thy gift at the altar and
go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer
thy gift.”940
How then may we
retain displeasure against our brother, I will not say for several
days, but even till the going down of the sun, if we are not allowed to
offer our prayers to God while he has anything against us? And yet we
are commanded by the Apostle: “Pray without
ceasing;”941
and “in every
place lifting up holy hands without wrath and
disputing.”942
It remains then
either that we never pray at all, retaining this poison in our hearts,
and become guilty in regard of this apostolic or evangelic charge, in
which we are bidden to pray everywhere and without ceasing; or else if,
deceiving ourselves, we venture to pour forth our prayers, contrary to
His command, we must know that we are offering to God no prayer, but an
obstinate temper with a rebellious spirit.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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