Anger Must be Brief
Ephesians 4:26
Be you angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down on your wrath:


Plutarch writeth that it was the custom of ' scholars, however they had been jarring and jangling in their disputations, yet, before the sun set, to kiss and shake hands before they departed out of the school. Leontias Patricius was one day extremely and unreasonably angry with John, Patriarch of Alexandria. At evening the patriarch sent a servant to him with this message: "Sir, the sun is set," upon which Patricius reflecting, and the grace of God making the impression deep, he threw away his anger, and became wholly subject to the counsel of the patriarch.

(J. Trapp.)



Parallel Verses
KJV: Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:

WEB: "Be angry, and don't sin." Don't let the sun go down on your wrath,




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