The second is, Let not the sun go down on your irritation examine yourself in the evening, and see that you are tranquil.
The first check is to beware of sinning to keep your anger clear of bitterness, spite, malevolence, and all such evil feelings. Our Lord did not make anger a breach of the sixth commandment, but being angry with a brother without cause. Anger, the feeling and expression of displeasure, is not wholly forbidden, but is guarded by two checks. Quotation from the Septuagint version of Psalm 4:5. It is that "nursing of wrath to keep it warm," which can be checked even by those who cannot control the first outburst, and which constantly corrupts righteous indignation into selfish personal anger, if not into malignity. (1) It is not to be prolonged beyond the sunset-beyond the sleep which ends the old day and leads in the freshness of the new, and which by any godly man must be prepared for in commendation of himself to God, and in prayer for His forgiveness, "as we forgive those who trespass against us." (2) It is not to be brooded over and stimulated for the word "wrath" is properly self-exasperation, being similar to the "contention" of Acts 15:30, described as alien to the spirit of love in 1Corinthians 13:5. Paul gives a two-fold safeguard against abuse of even righteous anger. Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.-In this command (for which a Pythagorean parallel may be found) St. But it is a dangerous and exceptional weapon: and hence the exhortation "sin not," and the practical enforcement of that exhortation in the next clause. In the form of resentment, and above all of the resentment of righteous indignation, it performs (as Butler has shown in his sermon on "Resentment") a stimulating and inspiring function in the strife against evil. Anger itself is not sin, for our Lord Himself felt it ( Mark 3:5) at the "hardness of men's hearts " and it is again and again attributed to God Himself, in language no doubt of human accommodation, but, of course, accommodation to what is sinless in humanity. "Be angry, and don't sin." Don't let the sun go down on your wrath,īe angry and do not sin let not the sun go down upon your wrath,Įllicott's Commentary for English Readers(26) Be ye angry, and sin not.-A quotation from the LXX. Let not your irritation last until the sun goes down "Be angry, but do not sin." Do not let the sun go down on your anger, "Be angry, yet do not sin." Do not let the sun set while you are still angry,īe angry and do not sin do not let the sun go down on your wrath,īe angry but do not sin do not let the sun set on your anger,īe angry and do not sin do not let the sun go down on the cause of your anger.īe angry but do not sin do not let the sun go down on your anger, If you become angry, do not let your anger lead you into sin, and do not stay angry all day. Don't go to bed angryīe angry, and sin not. Don’t let the sun go down on your anger,īe angry and do not sin, and do not let the sun set on your anger.ĭon't get so angry that you sin. “Be angry, and do not sin”: do not let the sun go down on your wrath,īE ANGRY, AND YET DO NOT SIN do not let the sun go down on your anger,īE ANGRY, AND yet DO NOT SIN do not let the sun go down on your anger,īE ANGRY, YET DO NOT SIN do not let your anger last until the sun goes down.īe angry and do not sin. "Be angry, and yet do not sin." Let not the sun set upon your anger,īe ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: “Be angry, yet do not sin.” Do not let the sun set upon your anger, “In your anger do not sin": Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry,Īnd “don’t sin by letting anger control you.” Don’t let the sun go down while you are still angry,īe angry and do not sin do not let the sun go down on your anger,
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