Proverbs 29:22 (WEB)
An angry man stirs up strife, and a wrathful man abounds in sin.
Fathers and councils · 2
Cyprian of Carthage
“…easily turned to wrath; so that of none more than of you does divine Scripture say, “A wrathful man stirreth up strifes, and a furious man heapeth up sins.”” — editor's note: Prov. xxix. 22.
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John Cassian
- John Cassian, The Institutes VIII.1Book VIII
“Nor can we be free from dangerous disturbances, nor be without sin, even though no sort of disturbances be brought upon us by others; because “a passionate man engenders quarrels, but an angry man digs up sins.”” — editor's note: Prov. xxix. 22 (LXX.). ᾽Ανὴρ θυμώδης ἐγείρει νεῖκος, ἀνὴρ δὲ ὀργιλος ἐξώρυξεν ἁμαρτίαν. The old Latin as given by Sabatier has “Vir animosus parit zixas: vir…
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Cross-references · 6
Cited together in The Institutes VIII.1.
Cited together in The Institutes VIII.1.
Cited together in The Institutes VIII.1.
Cited together in The Institutes VIII.1.
Cited together in The Institutes VIII.1.
Cited together in The Institutes VIII.1.