blinded. This is what John asserts: He that hateth his brother is in darkness even until now.15 Hence before the eye lapses into darkness, it is troubled with wrath; but we must take care that the wrath does not degenerate into hatred and so blind the eye. Thus the Psalmist says: My eye is troubled with wrath, my soul and my belly—that is to say, my inmost self is troubled. “Belly” signifies the inmost recesses. Indeed one may sometimes be angry with the wicked and perverse, with those who stray