Psalm 4:4
Douay-Rheims
Know ye also that the Lord hath made his holy one wonderful: the Lord will hear me when I shall cry unto him.
Ambrose of Milan
He is not commanding us to be angry but making allowances for human nature. The anger that we cannot help feeling we can at least moderate. So, even if we are angry, our emotions may be stirred in accordance with nature, but we must not sin, contrary to nature. If someone cannot govern himself, it is intolerable that he should undertake to govern others.
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A.D. 397 · on Ps 4:4 (LETTER 63:60)
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.