{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/003/0030755.htm","path":"chr/ecf/003/0030755.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/003/0030755.htm","text":"p. 685 Chapter XI.\u2014When Praying the Father, You are Not to Be Angry with a Brother.\nThat we may not be as far from the ears of God as we are from His precepts, 8826 the memory of His precepts paves for our prayers a way unto heaven; of which precepts the chief is, that we go not up unto God\u2019s altar 8827 before we compose whatever of discord or offence we have contracted with our brethren. 8828 For what sort of deed is it to approach the peace of God 8829 without peace? the remission of debts 8830 while you retain them? How will he appease his Father who is angry with his brother, when from the beginning \u201call anger\u201d is forbidden us? 8831 For even Joseph, when dismissing his brethren for the purpose of fetching their father, said, \u201cAnd be not angry in the way.\u201d 8832 He warned us, to be sure, at that time (for elsewhere our Discipline is called \u201cthe Way\u201d 8833 ), that when, set in \u201cthe way\u201d of prayer, we go not unto \u201cthe Father\u201d with anger. After that, the Lord, \u201camplifying the Law,\u201d 8834 openly adds the prohibition of anger against a brother to that of murder. 8835 Not even by an evil word does He permit it to be vented. 8836 Ever if we must be angry, our anger must not be maintained beyond sunset, as the apostle admonishes. 8837 But how rash is it either to pass a day without prayer, while you refuse to make satisfaction to your brother; or else, by perseverance in anger, to lose your prayer?\nOehler divides these two chapters as above. The generally adopted division unites this sentence to the preceding chapter, and begins the new chapter with, \u201cThe memory of His precepts;\u201d and perhaps this is the preferable division.\n685:8827\naltare. [Heb. xiii. 10.]\n685:8828\nMatt. 5:22, 23.\n685:8829\nPerhaps there may be an allusion to Phil. 4:6, 7.\n685:8830\nSee chap. vii. above, and compare Matt. 6:14, 15.\n685:8831\n\u201cAb initio\u201d probably refers to the book of Genesis, the initium, or beginning of Scripture, to which he is about to refer. But see likewise Eph. 4:31, Matt. 5:21, 22, Gen. 4:6, 7\n685:8832\nGen. xlv. 24: so the LXX.\n685:8833\nSee Acts 9:2, Acts 19:9, 23, in the Greek.\n685:8834\nSee Matt. v. 17.\n685:8835\nMatt. 5:21, 22.\n685:8836\nMatt. 5:21, 22, 1 Pet. 3:9, etc.\n685:8837","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol III: Tertullian: Part III: When ...","type":"page"}