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.