2) Zeal often appears as anger, but it isn't, it comes from a good motive rather than an evil motive. Anger comes to a person when a selfish love is hindered or attacked, while a sense of zeal comes to a person when a good love or a worthy truth is hindered or attacked. Devils and Satans feel anger, and feel it often, and they seek to attack. Angels may feel zeal, and seek to defend. Anger is an emotion so common to people that it requires no definition. However a couple of points of interest can be raised. 1) The Lord is never angry. Anger is attributed to Him because the word is written to make sense to men and it seems as if He should be angry when men are evil. And it doesn't harm people to think in this way. Also when evil people have their plans go wrong, they feel anger toward the Lord and assume that is returned.

246. 'Beast' and 'wild animal of the field' mean affections. This becomes clear from what has been stated already in 45, 46, about 'beast' and 'wild animal', to which let the following quotation from David be added,

You shake down a shower of blessings, O God; Your heritage which is labouring, You strengthen; Your wild animals will dwell in it. Psalms 68:9-10.

Here also 'wild animal' stands for the affection for good, since it is going 'to dwell in God's heritage'. The reason 'beast' and 'wild animal of the field' are mentioned here, as also in Genesis 2:19, 20, but 'beast' and 'wild animal of the earth' in Genesis 1:24-25, is that the subject is the Church, that is, man when regenerate, whereas in Chapter 1 the subject is the time when the Church does not exist, that is, when man has yet to be regenerated; for 'field' is a term applying to the Church, that is, to man when regenerate.