{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/211/2110457.htm","path":"chr/ecf/211/2110457.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/211/2110457.htm","text":"Of the anger which should be directed against ourselves.\nAnd some are commanded to \u201cbe angry\u201d after a wholesome fashion, but with our own selves, and with evil thoughts that arise, and \u201cnot to sin,\u201d viz., by bringing them to a bad issue. Finally, the next verse explains this to be the meaning more clearly: \u201cThe things you say in your hearts, be sorry for them on your beds:\u201d 933 i.e., whatever you think of in your hearts when sudden and nervous excitements rush in on you, correct and amend with wholesome sorrow, lying as it were on a bed of rest, and removing by the moderating influence of counsel all noise and disturbance of wrath. Lastly, the blessed Apostle, when he made use of the testimony of this verse, and said, \u201cBe ye angry and sin not,\u201d added, \u201cLet not the sun go down upon your wrath, neither give place to the devil.\u201d 934 If it is dangerous for the sun of righteousness to go down upon our wrath, and if when we are angry we straightway give place to the devil in our hearts, how is it that above he charges us to be angry, saying, \u201cBe ye angry, and sin not\u201d? Does he not evidently mean this: be ye angry with your faults and your tempers, lest, if you acquiesce in them, Christ, the sun of righteousness, may on account of your anger begin to go down on your darkened minds, and when He departs you may furnish a place for the devil in your hearts?","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. XI: The Wor...","type":"page"}