23. When do we sin by ' Anger'?
When we are exasperated at that which displeases us, fly into a passion, and suffer ourselves to be carried away by a violent desire of revenge.
Anger leads to hatred, enmity, quarrelling, cursing, blaspheming, reviling, and to all the sins and crimes against the Fifth Commandment of God. — Examples: Esau, whilst in anger, designs to kill his brother Jacob; Absalom kills his brother Amnon. 'Let all bitterness, and anger, and indignation, and clamor, and blasphemy, be put away from you, with all malice' (Ephes. iv. 31).
24. When do we sin by ' Gluttony '?
When we eat and drink too much, or when, out of time and in an inordinate manner, we long for eating and drinking.
From this vice proceed: Daintiness, profusion, idleness, drunkenness, destruction of domestic peace and comfort, indecent jests and buffooneries, lewdness, adultery, debauchery, impenitence; and likewise cursing, railing, striking, and murdering. — Examples: The rich man (Luke xvi. 19, etc.); King Baltassar. ' Take heed to yourselves, lest perhaps your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness, and that day [of judgment] come upon you suddenly' (Luke xxi. 34). 'Their [the intemperate] God is their belly' (Philip, iii. 19).
25. When do we sin by 'Envy'?
When we repine at our neighbor's good, and are sad when he is in possession of temporal or spiritual blessings, and rejoice when he is deprived of them.
Envy produces: Ingratitude and murmuring against God, blasphemy, blindness, whispering and calumny; hatred, desire of revenge, deceit and knavery, persecution and murder. — Examples: Satan, Cain, the brothers of Joseph, Saul, the Pharisees. 'By the envy of the devil death came into the world; and they follow him that are of his side' (Wisd. ii. 2i, 25).
26. When do we sin by 'Sloth'?
When we give way to our natural repugnance to labor and exertion, and thus neglect our duties.
27. What sort of sloth is particularly hateful to God?
Lukewarmness, or laziness in whatsoever concerns the service of God or the salvation of our soul. Therefore
