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We usually see meekness and anger as representing the opposite (contradictory?) sides of Jesus' character. But it may be that the meekness of Jesus and the anger of Jesus are really two expressions of the same thing.
The late William Barclay, a distinguished biblical scholar, defined meekness as the mean between too much anger and too little anger. To be meek, therefore, is to have just the right amount of anger and to express it toward an appropriate object, in the correct manner and at the proper time.
We usually see meekness and anger as representing the opposite (contradictory?) sides of Jesus' character. But it may be that the meekness of Jesus and the anger of Jesus are really two expressions of the same thing.
The late William Barclay, a distinguished biblical scholar, defined meekness as the mean between too much anger and too little anger. To be meek, therefore, is to have just the right amount of anger and to express it toward an appropriate object, in the correct manner and at the proper time.