What It Is
Each line is one thing said. Authors named first use those words. Those after “in nearly the same words” say the same thing differently; point at a name to see their words.
| “inordinate appetite of vengeance” | Merkelbach I, n. 509; Noldin n. 349; Wouters n. 323; Marc n. 370In nearly the same words: St. Thomas II-II, q. 158, a. 1; Prümmer n. 429; Vermeersch n. 485; Sabetti-Barrett n. 144; Bontempi On anger, n. 1 |
| As a passion, not yet a vice: “anger is a passion of the sensitive appetite” | St. Thomas II-II, q. 158, a. 1In nearly the same words: Merkelbach II, n. 1037; Noldin n. 349; Prümmer II, n. 709; Marc n. 370; Vermeersch n. 485 |
| Inordinate in its object: “one desires unjust revenge” | St. Thomas II-II, q. 158, a. 3In nearly the same words: Merkelbach I, n. 509; Prümmer n. 429; Noldin n. 349; Wouters n. 323; McHugh-Callan n. 2546; Marc n. 370; Vermeersch n. 485; Bontempi On anger, n. 11 |
| Inordinate in its mode: “if one be too fiercely angry inwardly, or if one exceed in the outward signs of anger” | St. Thomas II-II, q. 158, a. 3In nearly the same words: Merkelbach I, n. 509; Prümmer n. 429; Noldin n. 349; Wouters n. 323; McHugh-Callan n. 2546; Marc n. 370; Vermeersch n. 485; Bontempi On anger, n. 12 |
| As a movement of the soul: “the kindling of the soul, and a disordered motion against someone or something” | Sabetti-Barrett n. 144In nearly the same words: Bontempi On anger, n. 1 |
| The name of the vice: “The habit of anger is irascibility” | Marc n. 370In nearly the same words: Sabetti-Barrett n. 144; Prümmer n. 429; Merkelbach II, n. 1037 |
What It Is Not
| Anger that follows reason is no sin: “zealous anger” | St. Thomas II-II, q. 158, a. 1, ad 2In nearly the same words: Prümmer n. 429; Merkelbach II, n. 1037; Vermeersch n. 486; Bontempi On anger, n. 3; McHugh-Callan n. 2545; Wouters n. 323; Noldin n. 349; Marc n. 370 |
| From St. Gregory: “zealous anger troubles the eye of reason, whereas sinful anger blinds it” | St. Thomas II-II, q. 158, a. 1, ad 2In nearly the same words: Bontempi On anger, n. 9 |
| Nor is great anger always sinful: “anger is not necessarily inordinate because it is great, but because it is too great” | Merkelbach I, n. 509In nearly the same words: McHugh-Callan n. 2546 |
| The difference in end: “Anger through zeal seeks vengeance upon the person, that the vice in the person may be destroyed” | Bontempi On anger, n. 10 |
| And to lack it when it is owed is a sin: “lack of the passion of anger is also a vice” | St. Thomas II-II, q. 158, a. 8In nearly the same words: Merkelbach II, n. 1036; Prümmer II, n. 709; Wouters n. 449; Marc n. 370; Bontempi On anger, n. 25 |
The Opposed Virtue
| “opposed to meekness” | St. Thomas II-II, q. 157, a. 1, ad 3; Wouters n. 323; Bontempi On anger, n. 8In nearly the same words: Prümmer n. 429; Merkelbach II, n. 1036; Noldin n. 349; McHugh-Callan n. 2545 |
| On which side: “Anger is opposed by excess to meekness” | Noldin n. 349In nearly the same words: St. Thomas II-II, q. 157, a. 1, ad 3; Prümmer II, n. 709; Wouters n. 449 |
| Merkelbach sets it on the other side: “irascibility primarily and by defect” | Merkelbach II, n. 1036 |
| As desiring unjust revenge: “contrary to charity and justice” | St. Thomas II-II, q. 158, a. 3; Merkelbach I, n. 509In nearly the same words: Prümmer n. 430; Noldin n. 349; Wouters n. 324; Marc n. 371; McHugh-Callan n. 2547 |
| St. Bonaventure, in Bontempi: “It is opposed also to patience” | Bontempi On anger, n. 10 |
See Temperance, and what the capital vices feed.
Its Gravity
| Inordinate in its object: “mortal from its genus” | Wouters n. 324; Sabetti-Barrett n. 144In nearly the same words: St. Thomas II-II, q. 158, a. 3; Prümmer n. 430; Merkelbach II, n. 1038; Noldin n. 338; McHugh-Callan n. 2547; Marc n. 371; Vermeersch n. 485; Bontempi On anger, n. 19 |
| Inordinate only in its mode: “is venial” | Wouters n. 324In nearly the same words: St. Thomas II-II, q. 158, a. 3; Prümmer n. 430; Merkelbach II, n. 1038; Noldin n. 336; McHugh-Callan n. 2547; Marc n. 363; Vermeersch n. 485; Sabetti-Barrett n. 144 |
| Even in its object it may be venial: “by reason of the imperfection of the act” | St. Thomas II-II, q. 158, a. 3In nearly the same words: Prümmer n. 430; Merkelbach II, n. 1038; McHugh-Callan n. 2547; Marc n. 371 |
| And excess of mode may become mortal: “It can nevertheless become mortal by accident” | Wouters n. 324In nearly the same words: St. Thomas II-II, q. 158, a. 3; Prümmer n. 430; Merkelbach II, n. 1038; Noldin n. 349; McHugh-Callan n. 2547; Marc n. 371; Bontempi On anger, n. 15 |
| Compared with other sins: “hatred is more grievous than envy, and envy than anger” | St. Thomas II-II, q. 158, a. 4In nearly the same words: Merkelbach II, n. 1039; McHugh-Callan n. 2548 |
Its Kinds
| choleric, sullen, and ill-tempered or stern | St. Thomas II-II, q. 158, a. 5In nearly the same words: Merkelbach II, n. 1039; Bontempi On anger, n. 12 |
| rancor, madness and fury | Noldin n. 349 |
| Three degrees, from St. Matthew: in the heart, in outward signs, and in effect | St. Thomas II-II, q. 158, a. 5, ad 3In nearly the same words: Bontempi On anger, n. 22 |
The Daughters of Anger
The headings are St. Thomas's.
| As consisting in thought | |
|---|---|
| indignation | St. Thomas II-II, q. 158, a. 7; Prümmer n. 431; Merkelbach I, n. 510; Wouters n. 325; McHugh-Callan n. 2549; Marc n. 369; Vermeersch n. 485; Sabetti-Barrett n. 144In nearly the same words: Bontempi On anger, n. 13 |
| swelling of mind | Prümmer n. 431; Merkelbach I, n. 510; Wouters n. 325; Marc n. 371; Vermeersch n. 485In nearly the same words: St. Thomas II-II, q. 158, a. 7; Bontempi On anger, n. 13; McHugh-Callan n. 2549 |
| As expressed in words | |
| clamor | St. Thomas II-II, q. 158, a. 7; Prümmer n. 431; Merkelbach I, n. 510; Marc n. 371; Vermeersch n. 485In nearly the same words: Wouters n. 325; McHugh-Callan n. 2549; Bontempi On anger, n. 13; Sabetti-Barrett n. 144 |
| blasphemy | St. Thomas II-II, q. 158, a. 7; Prümmer n. 431; Merkelbach I, n. 509; Wouters n. 324; McHugh-Callan n. 2549; Marc n. 371; Vermeersch n. 485In nearly the same words: Bontempi On anger, n. 13; Sabetti-Barrett n. 144 |
| contumely | St. Thomas II-II, q. 158, a. 7; Prümmer n. 431; Merkelbach I, n. 510; McHugh-Callan n. 2549; Marc n. 371In nearly the same words: Wouters n. 325; Vermeersch n. 485; Bontempi On anger, n. 13; Sabetti-Barrett n. 144 |
| cursing | Wouters n. 324; Marc n. 371In nearly the same words: Vermeersch n. 485 |
| As proceeding to deeds | |
| quarrels | St. Thomas II-II, q. 158, a. 7; Merkelbach I, n. 510; McHugh-Callan n. 2549; Vermeersch n. 485In nearly the same words: Prümmer n. 431; Wouters n. 325; Marc n. 371; Bontempi On anger, n. 13 |
| Others also named | |
| rancor | Sabetti-Barrett n. 144 |
| hatred, contention, war, conflagration, homicide, rapine | Bontempi On anger, n. 17 |
The Remedies
The fuller lists are the manuals'. Where an author has no list, the entries are what that author says in passing, gathered from wherever it is said.
The headings are Merkelbach's (Pastoral, Q. VII): remedies “on the part of the mind or on the part of work”, and those of work before, in, and after anger. Prümmer's three (n. 432) fall before anger, in the mind, and in anger, though he does not name them so; Wouters and Marc give theirs without order. Where they set a remedy at a different time: Prümmer's “slow to speak” stands among the remedies that forestall the causes, and Merkelbach's speaking only “with a tranquil mind” (Pastoral, Q. VII) before anger, while Wouters' “abstain from acting and speaking until anger has cooled” (n. 326) and Merkelbach's containing the tongue “while anger lasts” (Pastoral, Q. VII) are in it. Marc's prayer is “especially in the movement of anger” (n. 371); Merkelbach has a short prayer in anger, and after it, “Frequently to ask for patience and meekness” (Pastoral, Q. VII).
| The virtue itself: “meekness represses anger” | St. Thomas II-II, q. 157, a. 3 |
| On the part of the mind | |
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| “To consider how many evils and damages are naturally apt to follow from anger” | Merkelbach Pastoral, Q. VIIIn nearly the same words: Marc n. 371 |
| “Weigh that you almost always repent of what you have said or done when angry” | Wouters n. 326 |
| “Consider the meekness of Christ” | Wouters n. 326In nearly the same words: Prümmer n. 432; Merkelbach Pastoral, Q. VII; Marc n. 371; Deshon Guide, ch. XXXV |
| “they ought to direct their resentment against their own sins” | St. Alphonsus True Spouse, ch. VIIIn nearly the same words: Prümmer n. 432 |
| “To think that it cannot happen that burdensome, injurious, and ignominious things do not occur in this life” | Merkelbach Pastoral, Q. VII |
| “To hold oneself prepared to tolerate anything whatsoever” | Merkelbach Pastoral, Q. VII |
| On the part of the work: before anger | |
| “To forestall the causes” | Prümmer n. 432In nearly the same words: Merkelbach Pastoral, Q. VII |
| “To guard, insofar as it can be done, against the first movements” | Merkelbach Pastoral, Q. VII |
| “Not to speak and act except with a tranquil mind, and after mature consideration and deliberation” | Merkelbach Pastoral, Q. VIIIn nearly the same words: Prümmer n. 432 |
| “Not to inquire what is said or done against us” | Merkelbach Pastoral, Q. VII |
| “To flee things or persons which are occasions of anger” | Merkelbach Pastoral, Q. VII |
| In anger | |
| “Vigorously and immediately to resist the movements of anger” | Prümmer n. 432In nearly the same words: Wouters n. 326; Merkelbach Pastoral, Q. VII |
| “To contain the tongue and movement, so that while anger lasts we do or say nothing” | Merkelbach Pastoral, Q. VIIIn nearly the same words: Wouters n. 326; Spirago THE OPPOSITE OF MEEKNESS: WRATH |
| “prayer, especially in the movement of anger” | Marc n. 371In nearly the same words: Merkelbach Pastoral, Q. VII; Spirago THE OPPOSITE OF MEEKNESS: WRATH |
| “it is counseled that an angry man look in a mirror at the deformity of his face” | Prümmer n. 429 |
| Against another's anger: “answer with sweetness, and her anger will be instantly appeased” | St. Alphonsus True Spouse, ch. XII |
| After anger | |
| “To excite in oneself an affection of charity toward the neighbor” | Merkelbach Pastoral, Q. VII |
| “To cast away every inordinate purpose of vengeance” | Merkelbach Pastoral, Q. VII |
| “Frequently to ask for patience and meekness” | Merkelbach Pastoral, Q. VII |
| “If we have offended any one in our anger, we should make amends by extreme politeness.” | Spirago THE OPPOSITE OF MEEKNESS: WRATH |
Where Each Author Treats It
| Among the capital sins | Prümmer nn. 429-432; Merkelbach nn. 509-510; Noldin n. 349; Wouters nn. 323-326; Marc nn. 370-371; Vermeersch nn. 485-486; Sabetti-Barrett n. 144 |
| Under meekness, as the vice opposed to it | St. Thomas II-II, q. 158; Prümmer II, n. 709; Merkelbach II, nn. 1036-1039; Wouters n. 449; McHugh-Callan nn. 2546-2549; Bontempi On anger |