Would you say Trump to be a patient man? Does patience equal inactivity?

Patience is often related to the power of suffering bad. Without the context of the good, it simply means doing nothing. And then we land in the spot where evil reigns supreme.

@emyrylde posted a contribution where the case of King David and the Absalom rebellion was used to exemplify the choices we as people have. https://greatawakening.win/p/12j0VqTInO/good-insight----5-types-of-peopl/

What does Trump, patience have to do with beware?

John Dryden, an Enlgish poet, wrote a play called Absalom and Achitofel. And this was a thinly veiled warning to King Charles II of England something was afoot and a plot against him was underway.

Of course, it is quite interesting to dig a little deeper into our friend Charles II here, especially where it concerned his position in the Reformation and the geo-political consequences. In 1672, together with Louis XIV of France, and the Bishop of Münster, was up in a secret plot to destroy the very successful Republic of the 7 Provinces ( See Act of Abjuration). This plot was sponsored by his privy council. And when you put the first letters of the names of the members of this privy council in order you read: CABAL. (Cabal is not rogue elements, but governmental plotters!)

At any rate, by using the example of the Absolom rebellion against King David, he interspersed this with artistic freedom. Views of his days superimposed on an event from 2500 years before that.

In the lament of King David, close to the conclusion of the poem, one is reminded of Maxim Number 289 by Publilius Syrus of the first century, B.C.: "An overtaxed patience gives way to fury," as well as of the colloquial: "Even a worm will turn." Here David (Charles II) is sorry that the conspirators had mistaken his merciful treatment of them for fear. Now that his patience has been overtaxed, he will be forced to act cruelly and decisively.

The play reads: Must I at length the sword of justice draw?

O curst effect of necessary law!

How ill my fear they by my mercy scan,

Beware the fury of a patient man.

Law they require, let Law then show her face;

They could not be content to look on Grace,

Her hinder parts, but with a daring eye

To tempt the terror of her front and die.

Of course much of what Dryden wrote is satire, of a very subtle nature. But let's forget satire a moment, and take it literally.

Did Trump not say, he needs law and order? How often did we lament the absence of effective punishment?

When the full weight of the law bears down on these evil men and women, and "its", I should add, when the deep level of depravity becomes known and easy to swallow for the larger part of our populace, the backlash will be biblical.

It is a testament to the greatness of a man's character to practice patience until the opportune moment. Timing is everything.

Yes, beware of the fury of patient men.