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BUT it looks as if even this was not the end of vengeance to every one,
but some can only completely satisfy their wrath or sulkiness if they carry
out the impulse of anger as far as they are able; and this we know to be
the case with those who restrain their feelings, not from desire of calming
them, but simply from want of opportunity of revenge. For they can do
nothing more to those with whom they are angry, except speak to them
without ordinary civility: or it looks as if anger was to be moderated only
in action, and not to be altogether rooted out from its hiding place in our
bosom: so that, overwhelmed by its shadows, we are unable not only to admit
the light of wholesome counsel and of knowledge, but also to be a temple of
the Holy Spirit, so long as the spirit of anger dwells in us. For wrath
that is nursed in the heart, although it may not injure men who stand by,
yet excludes the splendour of the radiance of the Holy Ghost, equally with
wrath that is openly manifested.
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