憤怒

WRATHふんぬ[/ræθ/]名詞

解説

上位の人物や重大な場面にふさわしい、質と度合いにおいて優れた怒り。

「神の怒り」「怒りの日」など。
古代ではの怒りは神のを借りて表れ、聖職者も同様だった。
トロイア戦争でギリシャ人はクリュセースの怒りから逃れてアキレスの怒りに飛び込み、アガメムノンは無傷だった。
ダビデは国民を数えたことで神の怒りを買い、七万人がんだが本人は無事。

現代では神はとなり、国勢調査官は平然と仕事をする。

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Original

Anger of a superior quality and degree, appropriate to exalted characters and momentous occasions; as, "the wrath of God," "the day of wrath," etc. Amongst the ancients the wrath of kings was deemed sacred, for it could usually command the agency of some god for its fit manifestation, as could also that of a priest. The Greeks before Troy were so harried by Apollo that they jumped out of the frying-pan of the wrath of Chryses into the fire of the wrath of Achilles, though Agamemnon, the sole offender, was neither fried nor roasted. A similar noted immunity was that of David when he incurred the wrath of Yahveh by numbering his people, seventy thousand of whom paid the penalty with their lives. God is now Love, and a director of the census performs his work without apprehension of disaster.

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