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What the Fathers say

Mark 3:5

Eastern Fathers

Theophylact of Ohrid

Note also the word "was restored"; there was a time when we had our hands, or active powers, healthy — namely, when the transgression had not yet been committed; but from the time our hand reached out for the forbidden fruit, it became withered with respect to the doing of good. But it will again return to its former healthy state when we stand in the midst of the virtues.

Commentary on Mark ↗

Western Saints

Augustine of Hippo

If angry emotions which spring from a love of what is good and from holy charity are to be labeled vices, then all I can say is that some vices should be called virtues. When such affections as anger are directed to their proper objects, they are following good reasoning, and no one should dare to describe them as maladies or vicious passions. This explains why the Lord himself, who humbled himself to the form of a servant, was guilty of no sin whatever as he displayed these emotions openly when appropriate. …

The City Of God, Book 14 ↗

Bonaventure

In the mystery of the redemption of man, Christ is pointed to as a triumphant lion in Mark, wherefore in the same: "Looking round upon them with anger."

Collations on the Hexaemeron, Collation 14 ↗