{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/211/2110458.htm","path":"chr/ecf/211/2110458.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/211/2110458.htm","text":"Of the sun, of which it is said that it should not go down upon your wrath.\nAnd of this sun God clearly makes mention by the prophet, when He says, \u201cBut to those that fear my name the sun of righteousness shall arise with healing in His wings.\u201d 935 And this again is said to \u201cgo down\u201d at midday on sinners and false prophets, and those who are angry, when the prophet says, \u201cTheir sun is gone down at noon.\u201d 936 And at any rate \u201ctropically\u201d 937 the mind, that is the \u03bd\u03bf\u1fe6\u03c2 or reason, which is fairly called the sun because it looks over all the thoughts and discernings of the heart, should not be put out by the sin of anger: lest when it \u201cgoes down\u201d the shadows of disturbance, together with the devil their author, fill all the feelings of our hearts, and, overwhelmed by the shadows of wrath, as in a murky night, we know not what we ought to do. In this sense it is that we have brought forward this passage of the Apostle, handed down to us by the teaching of the elders, because it was needful, even at the risk of a somewhat lengthy discourse, to show how they felt with regard to anger, for they do not permit it even for a moment to effect an entrance into our heart: observing with the utmost care that saying of the gospel: \u201cWhosoever is angry with his brother is in danger of the judgment.\u201d 938 But if it be lawful to be angry up till sunset, the surfeit of our wrath and the vengeance of our anger will be able to give full play to passion and dangerous excitement before that sun inclines towards its setting. 939\nOn the different senses of Scripture see the note on Conference XIV. viii.\n260:938\nS. Matt. v. 22.\n260:939\nPetschenig\u2019s text is as follows: Ceterum si usque ad occasum solis licitur sit irasci, ante furoris satietas et ultrices ir\u00e6\u2014commotionem poterunt noxi\u00e6 perturbationis explere, quam sol iste ad locum sui vergat occasus. That of Gaz\u00e6us has \u201cante perturbationes noxi\u00e6 poterunt furoris satietatem et ultricis ir\u00e6 commotionem explere, etc.\u201d","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. XI: The Works of John Cassian.: Chapter X. Of the sun, of which it is said that it should not go down upon your wrath.","type":"page"}