BOOK VIII. OF THE SPIRIT OF ANGER.
Index
CHAPTER I: How our fourth conflict is against the sin of anger, and how many evils this passion produces.
CHAPTER II: Of those who say that anger is not injurious, if we are angry with those who do wrong, since God Himself is said to be angry.
CHAPTER III: Of those things which are spoken of God anthropomorphically.
CHAPTER IV: In what sense we should understand the passions and human arts which are ascribed to the unchanging and incorporeal God.
CHAPTER V: How calm a monk ought to be.
CHAPTER VI: Of the righteous and unrighteous passion of wrath.
CHAPTER VII: Of the only case in which anger is useful to us.
CHAPTER VIII: Instances from the life of the blessed David in which anger was rightly felt.
CHAPTER IX: Of the anger which should be directed against ourselves.
CHAPTER X: Of the sun, of which it is said that it should not go down upon your wrath.
CHAPTER XI: Of those to whose wrath even the going down of the sun sets no limit.
CHAPTER XII: How this is the end of temper and anger when a man carries it into act as far as he can.
CHAPTER XIII: That we should not retain our anger even for an instant.
CHAPTER XIV: Of reconciliation with our brother.
CHAPTER XV: How the Old Law would root out anger not only from the actions but from the thoughts.
CHAPTER XVI: How useless is the retirement of those who do not give up their bad manners.
CHAPTER XVII: That the peace of our heart does not depend on another's will, but lies in our own control.
CHAPTER XVIII: Of the zeal with which we should seek the desert, and of the things in which we make progress there.
CHAPTER XIX: An illustration to help in forming an opinion on those who are only patient when they are not tried by any one.
CHAPTER XX: Of the way in which auger should be banished according to the gospel.
CHAPTER XXI: Whether we ought to admit the addition of "without a cause," in that which is written in the Gospel, "whosoever is angry with his brother," etc.
CHAPTER XXII: The remedies by which we can root out anger from our hearts.