Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Proverbs 15:18

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 10, page 465, footnote 2 (Image)

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CCEL Footnote 3732 (In-Text, Margin)

... at one time is inflamed by anger, at another blazes up with fierce indignation, whose face now burns, and now again is changed to paleness, varying and changing colour every moment? But let it be so, let it be natural for one to be angry, or that there is generally a cause, it is a man’s duty to restrain anger, and not to be carried away like a lion by fury, so as not to know to be quieted, not to spread tales, nor to embitter family quarrels; for it is written: “A wrathful man diggeth up sin.”[Proverbs 15:18] He will not be consistent who is double-minded; he cannot be consistent who cannot restrain himself when angry, as to which David well says: “Be ye angry and sin not.” He does not govern his anger, but indulges his natural disposition, which a man ...