You hypocrite! First remove the beam out of your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck out of your brother’s 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
The hypocrisy lies in pretending zealous, compassionate charity while worse faults lie uncorrected in yourself. Only he who judges himself jealously and severely is fit to reprove others, and even then he does it with reluctance and moderation, not satisfaction and harshness.
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Christ rightly calls such a man a hypocrite who freely reproves other men's sins while hiding his own. The meaning is plain: begin with yourself, take notice of your own sins, reprove and reform yourself first; then you will be fit to observe and correct others' faults.
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