Forbear Threatening

We have already consider one word for threatening (apeileo), and we now come to another closely related one (apeile). As before, threatening is something the ungodly do. . . . We can see the sinful frame of mind that Saul of Tarsus was in as he engaged in his attack on the fledgling Christian church. ‘And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest, And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem’ (Acts 9:1–2). . . God’s people ought not to function with threats really at all.
Douglas Wilson