'There is among the passions an anger of the intellect,
and this anger is in accordance with nature. Without anger a man cannot
attain purity: he has to feel angry with all that is sown in him by the
enemy. When Job felt this anger he reviled his enemies, calling them
'dishonorable men of no repute, lacking everything good, whom I would
not consider fit to live with the dogs that guard my flocks' (cf. Job
30:1, 4. LXX). He who wishes to acquire the anger that is in
accordance with nature must uproot all self-will, until he establishes
within himself the state natural to the intellect.'
