Scripture words: Remember the commandments and do not be angry with your neighbor. Ben Sira 28:7
In the Bible, the spiritual gift of fear of God and the hardness of heart are orientations of the mind. Just as the fear of God guides men towards all that is edifying, just, benevolent, and has common sense, hardness of heart leads men to the opposite, to what is destructive, unjust, and chaotic; hardness of heart acts fundamentally against common sense.
And we can see this affirmation in the Bible in a very interesting story, the story of the prophet Moses and Pharaoh. Moses was a God-fearing man, and the Lord told Moses that Pharaoh's heart was hardened. Moses acted with common sense, but Pharaoh did not, until finally Pharaoh drowned in the Red Sea for pursuing Moses.
Instructing men in the fear of God is one of the fundamental objectives of the Old Testament, while it is true that fear is a spiritual gift, that is, a grace, it is also instruction because it partly participates in science. And this last point is what the scripture takes into account when it teaches this spiritual truth with these words: "Remember the commandments and do not be angry with your neighbor; remember the covenant of the Most High, and overlook faults" Ben Sira 28:7. And this has a very clear meaning because the fear of God is fundamentally devotion not only to God but also to his law, and the more fear of God there is in the heart, the more forgiveness there is towards one's neighbor and the evil received. Cultivating the fear of God in children and adults is fundamental to forming a healthy society that is oriented towards the common good and the resolution of common problems, and this is the teaching that the master of wisdom Ben Sira wanted to leave in his book. Passions such as hatred, envy, and resentment lead to nothing good, but devotion or fear of the law, as Psalm 119 teaches, is the path to the spiritual enlightenment. Bliss and destruction lie before the reason of man.
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