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| Chapter XXI. Whether we ought to admit the addition of “without a cause,” in that which is written in the Gospel, “whosoever is angry with his brother,” etc.
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Chapter XXI.
Whether we ought to admit the addition of “without
a cause,” in that which is written in the Gospel,
“whosoever is angry with his brother,” etc.
But you should know that
in this, which is found in many copies, “Whosoever is angry with
his brother without a cause, is in danger of the
judgment,”952
| 952 S. Matt. v. 22. The word εἰκῆ is said by Westcott and Host to
be “Western and Syrian.” It is wanting in אּ, B, Origen, and was not admitted by Jerome
in the Vulgate. | the words
“without a cause” are superfluous, and were added by those
who did not think that anger for just causes was to be banished: since
certainly nobody, however unreasonably he is disturbed, would say that
he was angry without a cause. Wherefore it appears to have been added
by those who did not understand the drift of Scripture, which intended
altogether to banish the incentive to anger, and to reserve no occasion
whatever for indignation; lest while we were commanded to be angry with
a cause, an opportunity for being angry without a cause might occur to
us. For the end and aim of patience consists, not in being angry with a
good reason, but in not being angry at all. Although I know that by
some this very expression, “without a cause,” is taken to
mean that he is angry without a cause who when he is angered is not
allowed to seek for vengeance. But it is better so to take it as we
find it written in many modern copies and all the ancient
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