{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/211/2110469.htm","path":"chr/ecf/211/2110469.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/211/2110469.htm","text":"Whether we ought to admit the addition of \u201cwithout a cause,\u201d in that which is written in the Gospel, \u201cwhosoever is angry with his brother,\u201d etc.\nBut you should know that in this, which is found in many copies, \u201cWhosoever is angry with his brother without a cause, is in danger of the judgment,\u201d 952 the words \u201cwithout a cause\u201d are superfluous, and were added by those who did not think that anger for just causes was to be banished: since certainly nobody, however unreasonably he is disturbed, would say that he was angry without a cause. Wherefore it appears to have been added by those who did not understand the drift of Scripture, which intended altogether to banish the incentive to anger, and to reserve no occasion whatever for indignation; lest while we were commanded to be angry with a cause, an opportunity for being angry without a cause might occur to us. For the end and aim of patience consists, not in being angry with a good reason, but in not being angry at all. Although I know that by some this very expression, \u201cwithout a cause,\u201d is taken to mean that he is angry without a cause who when he is angered is not allowed to seek for vengeance. But it is better so to take it as we find it written in many modern copies and all the ancient ones.\nS. Matt. v. 22. The word \u03b5\u1f30\u03ba\u1fc6 is said by Westcott and Host to be \u201cWestern and Syrian.\u201d It is wanting in \u05d0\u05bc, B, Origen, and was not admitted by Jerome in the Vulgate.","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. XI: The Works of John Cassian.: Chapter XXI. Whether we ought to admit the addition of \u201cwithout a cause,\u201d in that which is written in the Gospel, \u201cwhosoever is angry with his brother,\u201d etc.","type":"page"}