Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me cast out the mote out of thine eye; and lo, the beam is in thine own eye?
Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?
Christ reproves the scribes and Pharisees who condemn all about them with a magisterial and supercilious spirit. We must not judge our brother rashly or uncharitably, nor assume an authority over him we allow not him over us; we must not judge the hearts of others, nor make the worst of them, nor infer invidious things from their words and actions.
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Commenting on Matthew 7:1-6
What astonishing impudence, to reprove thy brother sharply for a small fault when thou art guilty of a far greater wickedness thyself. Art thou so blind as not to see thine own viler iniquity? Such a man is utterly unfit to be a reprover of others.
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