But if something exceeds the power of nature, this is a real miracle. It was not a wonder that the flames from the Babylonian furnace burned the Chaldeans who were standing nearby, for it is the nature of fire to burn, and it is the nature of human beings to be burned by fire. What is a wonder is if a person loves his enemy, because this is above and beyond nature. It sometimes seems to us better to die than to endure being offended. He who loves his enemy and does good to him gives sight to the blind, not to his physical eyes hut to his mental eyes.
Nothing so darkens the mental eyes as anger and rage.
There are many examples of how people in a fit of anger have acted like unreasonable children, for example, in the lives of the holy Martyrs we read that some of the torturers, in giving over Christians to be eaten by animals, would beat the animals when they were reluctant to touch the martyrs. From this it is clear that a man possessed by anger has indeed lost his right mind and is like a blind man, not knowing where he is going or what he is doing. Kindness, love, charity on the part of him who is the object of anger. For when the one who is angry sees that his anger is not met by anger but, on the contrary, by love and that evil is conquered by good, he wilt cease from his anger and become ashamed of himself, recognizing his sin and the innocence of his neighbor. This is how it was between the wrathful Saul and innocent David.