Verse 19 says:
For the kingdom of the devil must ashake, and they which belong to it must needs be stirred up unto repentance, or the bdevil will grasp them with his everlasting cchains, and they be stirred up to anger, and perish;
This seems to be saying that after a man is grasped by Satan's chains he is easily stirred up to anger. There are many scriptural references relating to anger and how Satan uses it for his purposes to get the people excited so that he can lead them to do evil.
It reminds me of the book Left to Tell, which chronicles the genocide in Rwanda. The people were mostly of two tribes, the Hutus and the Tutsis and they lived in peace and harmony. That is, until an extremist group from the Hutu tribe were allowed into power and they started a propaganda campaign, stirring up hatred against the Tutsis. They convinced the Hutus that the Tutsis were planning to come and slaughter them all in their beds and that they must kill them all before that could happen. The government even suspended all business and farming and encouraged the people to go on a killing rampage; to hunt down and kill every single Tutsi. People who previously had socialized happily and enjoyed each other now searched and tortured and slaughtered innocent women and children.
These people had been grasped so firmly by Satan's chains that they had lost all reasoning power and were possessed with a killing frenzy.
Few of us will ever be angry to that extreme, but even a little anger can be dangerous, and can move us toward Satan's influence. If we get angry with our spouse, we lose the feelings of love, and we harden our hearts. If we get angry at our children, we might discipline too harshly and lose the Spirit.
The world would have us vent our anger or express it in some way so that we don't suppress it and give ourselves ulcers. But the Lord's way is to view the other person as God views him, to look with love and to turn the anger over to the Lord. Usually our anger is tied in with our selfishness, our pride, our ambition. Love, humility, compassion and faith are qualities that will drive out anger.
