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Why else did Jacob, our most wise father, censure the households of Simeon and Levi for their irrational slaughter of the entire tribe of the Shechemites, saying, "Cursed be their anger"?
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For if reason could not control anger, he would not have spoken thus.
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Now when God fashioned man, he planted in him emotions and inclinations,
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but at the same time he enthroned the mind among the senses as a sacred governor over them all.
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To the mind he gave the law; and one who lives subject to this will rule a kingdom that is temperate, just, good, and courageous.
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.