in the moisture of the bile. Therefore, not entirely does He forbid anger since that emotion has been given as a necessary part of the creation, but He forbids the continuation of anger. For the wrath of mortals ought to be mortal, and if it should last, enmities are strengthened unto everlasting ruin. Then, again, since He has commanded man to be angry, indeed, and yet not to sin, certainly He did not tear out anger by its roots, but He tempered it, so that in all chastisement we might hold to measure