{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-4171","native_reference":{"book_number":250,"chapter_from":7,"chapter_to":7,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":9,"verse_to":9},"public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"verse-keyed-module-record","review_required":["English edition and exact text","author/work attribution","dating","verse mapping and citation kind","reuse and attribution","split author quotations and deduplicate"],"review_status":"unreviewed","source_html":"<p><b>Gregory the Dialogist</b>: Further, through this vice of impatience for the most part the sin of arrogance pierces the mind; since, when any one is impatient of being looked down upon in this world, he endeavours to shew off any hidden good, that he may have, and so through impatience is drawn on to arrogance; and, while he cannot bear contempt, he glories ostentatiously in self-display. Whence it is written, Better is the patient than the arrogant; because, in truth, one that is patient chooses to suffer any evils whatever rather than that his hidden good should come to be known through the vice of ostentation. But the arrogant, on the contrary, chooses that even pretended good should be vaunted of him, lest he should possibly suffer even the least evil.<br/><i>— Pastoral Rule, Part 3, Chapter 9</i></p><p><b>Gregory the Dialogist</b>: We must above all things know, that as often as we restrain the turbulent motions of the mind under the virtue of mildness, we are essaying to return to the likeness of our Creator. For when the peace of the mind is lashed with Anger, torn and rent, as it were, it is thrown into confusion, so that it is not in harmony with itself, and loses the force of the inward likeness. Let us consider then how great the sin of Anger is, by which, while we part with mildness, the likeness of the image of the Most High is spoilt. By Anger wisdom is parted with, so that we are left wholly in ignorance what to do, and in what order to do it; as it is written, Anger resteth in the bosom of a fool.<br/><i>— Morals on the Book of Job, Book 5, Section 78</i></p><p><b>Jerome</b>: \"Better<br/>is the end of a thing than the beginning; \"Perorations are better in speaking, than just the<br/>introductory section. For worry comes to<br/>and end in the former, and commences in the latter. Or it could even mean this: he who begins to<br/>hear a speech, and goes to the teacher, is in first place. For indeed he who listens until the last is<br/>consumed and complete in learning. But<br/>this can also be understood in this way: while we are in this world, all that<br/>we know is as a beginning; but when that age is completed, we will understand<br/>everything as newest and completed. My<br/>Hebrew tutor explained this passage together with the following verse as<br/>follows: it is better for you to ponder the end of your business, than the<br/>beginning, and be patient, rather than being seized by the frenzy of<br/>impatience. We learn too from this<br/>reading that there is no wisdom in men, although it is better to do than to<br/>only say that you will do. And since,<br/>when the talk had finished, the listener thinks over for himself what has been<br/>said, and though he begins to speak, he has not yet understood what he can<br/>learn from it. \"And the patient in spirit is better than the proud in<br/>spirit. \"Since the heavenly one conceded to anger, saying,<br/>\"anger is better than laughter\", lest we think anger is to be praised<br/>in suffering, now he says that anger must be removed from deep down inside<br/>us. For there he assigns anger instead<br/>of correction in sinners, and learning in children. But here he checks<br/>impatience. But patience is not only<br/>necessary in difficult times, but also in happier times, in case we rejoice<br/>more than we should. It seems to me that<br/>he who is now called high in the spirit of the Gospel, is in contrast poor in<br/>spirit, and is even blessed.<br/><i>— Commentary on Ecclesiastes</i></p><p><b>John Cassian</b>: The deadly poison of anger has to be utterly rooted out from the inmost corners 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, \"for,\" says one, \"mine eye is disturbed by reason of anger.\" Nor can we become partakers of wisdom, even though we are considered wise by universal consent, for \"anger rests in the bosom of fools.\"<br/><i>— INSTITUTES 8:1</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"a8a96f90da3e66785ee13583142dde8683d608e8a5a9ea2a7daba9869a717fcc","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":4171,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"e2136c0954d62830530baec5b7ea033f4ddaeb0a27604c4e0b6ded63c3284083","translator":null,"work":null}