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发帖数: 8336 | 1 1. There is among the passions an anger of the intellect, and this anger is
in accordance with nature. Without anger a man cannot attain purity: he has
to feel angry with all that is sown in him by the enemy. When Job felt this
anger he reviled his enemies, calling them ‘dishonorable men of no repute,
lacking everything good, whom I would not consider fit to live with the dogs
that guard my flocks’ (cf. Job 30:1, 4. LXX). He who wishes to acquire the
anger that is in accordance with nature must uproot all self-will, until he
establishes within himself the state natural to the intellect.
对敌人的愤怒，对罪恶的厌恶 | n********n
发帖数: 8336 | 2 2.If you find yourself hating your fellow men and resist this hatred, and
you see that it grows weak and withdraws, do not rejoice in your heart; for
this withdrawal is a trick of the evil spirits. They are preparing a second
attack worse than the first; they have left their troops behind the city and
ordered them to remain there. If you go out to attack them, they will flee
before you in weakness. But if your heart is then elated because you have
driven them away, and you leave the city, some of them will attack you from
the rear while the rest will stand their ground in front of you; and your
wretched soul will be caught between them with no means of escape. The city
is prayer. Resistance is rebuttal through Christ Jesus. The foundation is
incensive power.
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发帖数: 8336 | 3 3. Let us stand firm in the fear of God, rigorously practicing the virtues
and not giving our conscience cause to stumble. In the fear of God let us
keep our attention fixed within ourselves, until our conscience achieves its
freedom. Then there will be a union between it and us, and thereafter it
will be our guardian, showing us each thing that we must uproot. But if we
do not obey our conscience, it will abandon us and we shall fall into the
hands of our enemies, who will never let us go. This is what our Lord taught
us when He said: ‘Come to an agreement with your adversary quickly while
you are with him in the road, lest he hand you over to the judge, and the
judge deliver you to the officer and you are cast into prison (Matt. 5:25).
The conscience is called an ‘adversary’ because it opposes us when we wish
to carry out the desires of our flesh; and if we do not listen to our
conscience, it delivers us into the hands of our enemies.
敬畏神，让良知护卫。良知，肉体的对手。 |
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