I recently picked up a set of shot glasses at an estate sale. Each one has the name of a Deadly Sin, except for one that just says “Sins” on it. I was slightly puzzled that “Wrath” , “Anger”, “Greed”, and “covetousness” each got their own spot. Is there a difference? Or were they just trying to pad out the set?
Lust, gluttony and pride would be the remaining seven deadlies.
Greed isn’t one of them. Sloth is missing
I believe there is a sloth one. Lemme check. Yep!
based on your heading, i thought the question was about difference between wrath and anger biblically, not seven sins
The seven mortal sins are the result of some centuries of theological thought. I believe Pope Gregory the Great, circa 600, promulgated the seven as we know them today: Pride, Envy, Wrath, Sloth, Wrath, Avarice, Gluttony, Lust.
He really liked Wrath, eh?
Well played; I laughed.
Next you know they won’t be issuing badges to the inquistion any more. Being unexpected and all, they don’ need no steenkin’ badges.
I laughed out loud too.
Then I looked back to make sure it wasn’t wraith(a sin I never heard of but my religious studies were lax). That would be a deadly…something or other.
Greed and covetousness have a lot of overlap, but there’s some distinction. Greed is about wanting more and more, while covetousness both means being overly focused on gain, and on wanting things that belong to other people.
You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male or female slaves, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.
Yes it is. Gluttony, Greed, Sloth, Lust, Pride, Wrath & Envy.
I just looked again and one glass says: “Picking the wrong side.” Not sure what that one means.
You say they have the name of a “Deadly Sin”, but that one glass just says “Sins”,
so maybe it’s nothing to do with “the 7”.
The only sin is picking the wrong side.
He wasn’t wrong about wrath being a source of much evil in this world. I notice that smoldering resentment causes a lot of wars.
Y’all do realize this is a list originally hammered out by theologians writing in Greek and Latin, and that the same word can be translated into English in various ways? Arguing over whether “greed,” “covetousness,” or “avarice” is one of the sins is missing the point. They’re all valid translations of avaritia. Similarly, Geoffrey Chaucer, writing around 1400, translates ira as “ire”; Christohper Marlowe, two centuries later, calls the same sin “wrath”; a modern writer trying to use everyday twenty-first-century English would probably go for “anger.”
So I think the likeliest explanation for the shot glasses is that the person who designed them was simply confused – they had heard different versions of the seven deadly sins at different times, wrote down the ones they remembered rather haphazardly, and didn’t stop to check a list or consider whether some of the terms might be synonyms.
Wrath and anger are two translations of the same sin. But the list does include both “greed” and “envy”.
Right, invidia (envy) and avaritia (avarice / greed / covetousness) are separate sins, but (as far as I can tell), nobody translates invidia as “greed” or “covetousness” – the dispute upthread about whether “greed” is a sin or not are all about the various translations of avaritia.
Nah, just late to the game.
When I was in junior school, we had an American priest teaching RE. He read this out but in that version it was “ox or ass” and he read ass as arse. Much hilarity ensued.
It’s a commandment rather than a sin, but the important one is:
Don’t Get Found Out and Caught.At It.