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Pro_14:17 [He that is] soon angry dealeth foolishly: and a man of wicked devices is hated.
Ver. 17. He that is soon angry dealeth foolishly.] Alexander, in his hot blood, slew his dearest friend, whom he would have revived again with his heart blood.
“ Qui non moderabitur irae
Infectum velit esse dolor quod suaserit, et mens. ”
Rash anger differs from madness, saith Seneca, in nothing but in time only. See my "Common Place of Anger."
And a man of wicked devices is hated,] i.e., He that beareth a grudge intending revenge - as one that only wants, and therefore waits a fit time, as Absalom did for Amnon - this is a dangerous man, and deservedly detested of all. It is counted manhood - indeed it is doghood. The curs of Congo, they say, bite but never bark. Esau threatened Jacob. Tiberius lentus in meditando, ubi prorupisset, tristioribus dictis atrocia facta conungebat. The more he meditated revenge, the more did time and delay sharpen it; and the further off he threatened, the heavier the stroke fell; therefore he was generally hated as an odious miscreant.