ABSTRACT
A person who is propitiated is presumed to be angry. When he is propitiated he forgives, and forgiveness, again, implies the putting away of wrath. Anger is never predicated of the good man save in certain extenuating circumstances. To Greek philosophical thought anger in the deity was abhorrent. To attribute it to God is almost to deify immorality. To Greek philosophical thought anger in the deity was abhorrent. To Plato anger in its noblest form was at best an ally of that part in man which was akin to the divine. Christ’s anger was real; but it was the hate of hate and the scorn of scorn; he could heal the ear of Malchus; he could pray for the rough soldiers as they jeered at his suffering upon the cross; but for hypocrisy, callousness and pride he had no mercy.
