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AND of this sun God clearly makes mention by the prophet, when He says,
"But to those that fear my name the sun of righteousness shall arise with
healing in His wings." And this again is said to "go down" at midday on
sinners and false prophets, and those who are angry, when the prophet says,
"Their sun is gone down at noon." And at any rate "tropically" the
mind, that is the nou^s 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 "goes down" 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: "Whosoever is angry with
his brother is in danger of the judgment." 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.
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