The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs 80
Dan 2
A dying father warns his children they will perish unless they shun lying and anger and love truth and long-suffering. Themes: Virtue, Vice and the Two Spirits
1nd now, my children, I am dying, and I tell you of a truth, that unless ye keep yourselves from the spirit of lying and of anger, and love truth and long-suffering, ye shall perish.
2 There is blindness in anger, my children, and no wrathful man regardeth any person with truth: for though it be a father or a mother, he behaveth towards them as enemies; though it be a brother, he knoweth him not; though it be a prophet of the Lord, he disobeyeth him; though a righteous man, he regardeth him not; a friend he doth not acknowledge.
3 For the spirit of anger encompasseth him with the nets of deceit, and blindeth his natural eyes, and through lying darkeneth his mind, and giveth him a sight of his own making.
4 And wherewith encompasseth he his eyes? In hatred of heart; and he giveth him a heart of his own against his brother unto envy.
Did You Know?
A dying father warns his children they will perish unless they shun lying and anger and love truth and long-suffering.
Anger blinds a wrathful man so that he treats even father or mother as enemies.
Under anger a man knows not his brother, disobeys a prophet of the Lord, and ignores a friend.
The spirit of anger traps him in nets of deceit, blinds natural eyes, and darkens the mind through lying.
Anger gives a man a sight of his own making and, through hatred of heart, a heart set against his brother unto envy.
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