{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/211/2110453.htm","path":"chr/ecf/211/2110453.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/211/2110453.htm","text":"And so a monk aiming at perfection, and desiring to strive lawfully in his spiritual combat, should be free from all sin of anger and wrath, and should listen to the charge which the \u201cchosen vessel\u201d gives him. \u201cLet all anger,\u201d says he, \u201cand wrath, and clamour, and evil speaking, be taken away from among you, with all malice.\u201d 927 When he says, \u201cLet all anger be taken away from you,\u201d he excepts none whatever as necessary or useful for us. And if need be, he should at once treat an erring brother in such a way that, while he manages to apply a remedy to one afflicted with perhaps a slight fever, he may not by his wrath involve himself in a more dangerous malady of blindness. For he who wants to heal another\u2019s wound ought to be in good health and free from every affection of weakness himself, lest that saying of the gospel should be used to him, \u201cPhysician, first heal thyself;\u201d 928 and lest, seeing a mote in his brother\u2019s eye, he see not the beam in his own eye, for how will he see to cast out the mote from his brother\u2019s eye, who has the beam of anger in his own eye? 929\nS. Luke iv. 23.\n259:929\nCf. S. Matt. vii. 3-5.","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. XI: The Works of John Cassian.: Chapter V. How calm a monk ought to be.","type":"page"}