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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Gregory the Dialogist
Why dost thou ruin thy soul in thy fury? Heretics esteem whether a strong feeling for the rule of right, or the spiritual grace of holy preaching, not as good weight of virtue, but as the madness of fury. By which same fury they believe that 'the souls of the faithful are ruined,' in that they imagine that the life of the Church is destroyed by the very same means whereby they see she is made to kindle against themselves. It goes on; Shall the earth be forsaken for thee? …
Thomas Aquinas
Consequently he finds fault him about anger because he had said, "Anger misted over my vision." (17:7) He had taken this in the wrong way believing that it was the sort of anger that had taken away from him the light of wisdom, not listening to what he had said after this, "The just will preserve his course." (17:9) So he then says, "Why do you lose your soul in your anger?" For one loses his soul in anger who because of anger departs from wisdom and justice which are the principle goods of the soul. …
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