{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/211/2110449.htm","path":"chr/ecf/211/2110449.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/211/2110449.htm","text":"How our fourth conflict is against the sin of anger, and how many evils this passion produces.\nIn our fourth combat the deadly poison of anger has to be utterly rooted out from the inmost comers of our soul. For as long as this remains in our hearts, and blinds with its hurtful darkness the eye of the soul, we can neither acquire right judgment and discretion, nor gain the insight which springs from an honest gaze, or ripeness of counsel, nor can we be partakers of life, or retentive of righteousness, or even have the capacity for spiritual and true light: \u201cfor,\u201d says one, \u201cmine eye is disturbed by reason of anger.\u201d 911 Nor can we become partakers of wisdom, even though we are considered wise by universal consent, for \u201canger rests in the bosom of fools.\u201d 912 Nor can we even attain immortal life, although we are accounted prudent in the opinion of everybody, for \u201canger destroys even the prudent.\u201d 913 Nor shall we be able with clear judgment of heart to secure the controlling power of righteousness, even though we are reckoned perfect and holy in the estimation of all men, for \u201cthe wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.\u201d 914 Nor can we by any possibility acquire that esteem and honour which is so frequently seen even in worldlings, even though we are thought noble and honourable through the privileges of birth, because \u201can angry man is dishonoured.\u201d 915 Nor again can we secure any ripeness of counsel, even though we appear to be weighty, and endowed with the utmost knowledge; because \u201can angry man acts without counsel.\u201d 916 Nor can we be free from dangerous disturbances, nor be without sin, even though no sort of disturbances be brought upon us by others; p. 258 because \u201ca passionate man engenders quarrels, but an angry man digs up sins.\u201d 917\nEccl. vii. 10 (LXX.).\n257:913\nProv. xv. 1 (LXX.).\n257:914\nS. James i. 20.\n257:915\nProv. xi. 25 (LXX.).\n257:916\nProv. xiv. 17 (LXX.).\n258:917\nProv. xxix. 22 (LXX.). \u1fbd\u0391\u03bd\u1f74\u03c1 \u03b8\u03c5\u03bc\u03ce\u03b4\u03b7\u03c2 \u1f10\u03b3\u03b5\u03af\u03c1\u03b5\u03b9 \u03bd\u03b5\u1fd6\u03ba\u03bf\u03c2, \u1f00\u03bd\u1f74\u03c1 \u03b4\u1f72 \u1f40\u03c1\u03b3\u03b9\u03bb\u03bf\u03c2 \u1f10\u03be\u03ce\u03c1\u03c5\u03be\u03b5\u03bd \u1f01\u03bc\u03b1\u03c1\u03c4\u03af\u03b1\u03bd. The old Latin as given by Sabatier has \u201cVir animosus parit zixas: vir autem iracundus effodit peccata.\u201d The verse is quoted by Gregory the Great in a passage which seems a reminiscence of Cassian\u2019s words with the reading effundit for effodit (Moral V. xxxi.). Jerome\u2019s rendering in the Vulgate is quite different: \u201cVir iracundus provocat zixas: et qui ad indignandum facilis est erit ad peccandum proclivior.\u201d","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. XI: The Works of John Cassian.: Chapter I. How our fourth conflict is against the sin of anger, and how many evils this passion produces.","type":"page"}