Daniel 2:12

The king was angry.

Anger

“Anger,” Dr. Cox observes, “is

(1) undignifying;

(2) unreasonable;

(3) destructive of that just and useful influence to which we should aspire, and for which everyone is naturally capacitated by his position in society;

(4) usually makes a rapid progress;

(5) is productive of great unhappiness;

(6) is a most guilty passion.”

It is remarked by Robert Hall: “Vindictive passions surround the soul with a sort of turbulent atmosphere, than which nothing can be conceived more opposite to the calm and holy light in which the blessed Spirit loves to dwell.”