The king was angry.
Anger
“Anger,” Dr. Cox observes, “is
(1) undignifying;
(2) unreasonable;
(3) destructive of that just and useful influence to which we should aspire, and for which everyone is naturally capacitated by his position in society;
(4) usually makes a rapid progress;
(5) is productive of great unhappiness;
(6) is a most guilty passion.”
It is remarked by Robert Hall: “Vindictive passions surround the soul with a sort of turbulent atmosphere, than which nothing can be conceived more opposite to the calm and holy light in which the blessed Spirit loves to dwell.”