We're to gie no place to
revenge, inside or oot. Therefore we're no to gie blow for blow.
Gien a man hit ye, ye're to take it i' God's name. But whether
things mayna come to a p'int whaurat ye're bu'n', still i' God's
name, to defen' the life God has gien ye, I canna say--I haena the
licht to justifee me in denyin' 't. There maun surely, I hae said
to mysel', be a time whan a man may hae to du what God dis sae
aften--mak use o' the strong han'! But it's clear he maunna do 't
in rage--that's ower near hate--an' hate 's the deevil's ain. A man
may, gien he live varra near the Lord, be whiles angry ohn sinned:
but the wrath o' man worketh not the richteousness o' God; an' the
wrath that rises i' the mids o' encoonter, is no like to be o' the
natur o' divine wrath. To win at it, gien 't be possible, lat's
consider the Lord--hoo he did. There's no word o' him ever liftin'
han' to protec' himsel'. The only thing like it was for ithers. To
gar them lat his disciples alane--maybe till they war like eneuch
til himsel' no to rin, he pat oot mair nor his han' upo' them 'at
cam to tak him: he strak them sair wi' the pooer itsel' 'at muvs a'
airms. But no varra sair naither--he but knockit them doon!--jist
to lat them ken they war to du as he bade them, an' lat his fowk
be;--an' maybe to lat them ken 'at gien he loot them tak him, it was
no 'at he couldna hin'er them gien he likit.
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