Definition
Long-spiritedness as received-ordinance — the patience that lives at the divine-human interface: both given by the Spirit (Galatians 5:22, fruit of the Spirit) and practiced by the person (Ephesians 4:2, "with all makrothymia, bearing with one another in love"). The temperament-pole of divine patience: the long-thymos character — the spirited part of the soul that takes a long time to ignite. Distinct from ereckappayime (the mechanism, exclusively divine, the time between offense and reckoning) in that makrothymime is the characterological register: what the spirit IS when it has been transformed by the Spirit into long-spiritedness. The -me marks it as received-ordinance — the fruit of the Spirit is received, not achieved; the human cultivation is participation in a cosmic structure, not generation of a personality trait.