Note, 1. Meekness is wisdom. He rightly understands himself, and his
duty and interest, the infirmities of human nature, and the
constitution of human society, who is slow to anger, and knows how to
excuse the faults of others as well as his own, how to adjourn his
resentments, and moderate them, so as by no provocation to be put out
of the possession of his own soul. A mild patient man is really to be
accounted an intelligent man, one that learns of Christ, who is Wisdom
itself. 2. Unbridled passion is folly proclaimed: He that is hasty of
spirit, whose heart is tinder to every spark of provocation, that is
all fire and tow, as we say, he thinks hereby to magnify himself and
make those about stand in awe of him, whereas really he exalts his own
folly; he makes it known, as that which is lifted up is visible to all,
and he submits himself to it as to the government of one that is
exalted.