“Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:”
Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, and every form of malice — the catalog of vices to be apotithēmi ('put away'): pikria ('bitterness,' harsh resentment), thymos ('rage,' passion), orgē ('anger,' settled wrath), kraygē ('clamor,' brawling), blasphemia ('slander,' abusive speech), pasa kakia ('all malice,' wickedness in all its forms).
Church Fathers on Ephesians 4:31
As bees will never settle down in an unclean vessel — and this is the reason why those who are skilled in these matters sprinkle the spot with perfumes, and scented ointments, and sweet odors; and the wicker baskets also, in which they will have to settle as soon as they come out of the hives they sprinkle with fragrant wines, and all other sweets, that there may be no noisome smell to annoy them, and drive them away again — so in truth is it also with the Holy Spirit. Our…
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