Anger and the Shepherd Psalm

Before we start

I went through several scholarly treatments and found nothing decisive. On reflection, the absence of anything decisive may be the most appropriate result this passage could produce.

• I stopped here in the middle of a read-through, and wrote from the stopping.
• A by-product of sermon preparation, reworked into something readable.
• An attempt to read a famous passage all the way through without lifting it out of context.
• Notes from reading a canonical and a non-canonical text next to each other.

The text itself

Let me set the terms. This is not an argument about doctrinal correctness. It is one reader's account of what the text can be made to yield. I am going to leave the ending open on purpose.（箴言 25:26）

21キリストに対する恐れの心をもって、互に仕え合うべきである。

エペソ人への手紙 5:21（口語訳（日本語））

Closing

Let me set the terms. This is not an argument about doctrinal correctness. It is one reader's account of what the text can be made to yield. I am going to leave the ending open on purpose.

11Now God himself and our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way unto you.

12And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you:

13To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.

テサロニケ人への第一の手紙 3:11-13（KJV（英語））