Judge not, that ye be not judged - These exhortations are pointed against rash, harsh, and uncharitable judgments, the thinking evil, where no evil seems, and speaking of it accordingly.
7:2 For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
For with what judgment - He who is severe on others will naturally excite their severity against himself. A hard and censorious behavior is sure to provoke reprisals.
With what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you - Awful words!
7:3 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
Our tendency is to spy out splinters in other men’s eyes, and not to see the beam in our own.
With what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you - Awful words!
7:3 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
Our tendency is to spy out splinters in other men’s eyes, and not to see the beam in our own.
Instead of beholding, with gratified gaze, the small fault of another, we should act reasonably if we penitently considered the greater fault of ourselves. It is the beam in our own eye which blinds us to our own wrong doing;
7:4 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?
7:4 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?
and behold a beam is in thine own eye - thou art guilty of a far greater iniquity.
Q:Art thou so blind, as not to see and observe thy viler wickedness?
7:5 Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
Q: Is he not a hypocrite to pretend to be so concerned about other men’s eyes, and yet he never attends to his own?
7:5 Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
Q: Is he not a hypocrite to pretend to be so concerned about other men’s eyes, and yet he never attends to his own?
Jesus is gentle, but he calls that man a “hypocrite “ who fusses about small things in others and pays no attention to great matters at home in his own person.
Our reformations must begin with ourselves,
or they are not true, and do not spring from a right motive.
*Sin we may rebuke,
but not if we indulge it.
*We may protest against evil,
but not if we willfully practice it.
7:6 Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.
When men are evidently unable to perceive the purity of a great truth, do not set it before them. 7:6 Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.
They are like mere dogs, and if you set holy things before them they will be provoked to “turn again and rend you”: holy things are not for the profane. “Without are dogs”: they must not be allowed to enter the holy place.
When you are in the midst of the vicious, who are like “swine,” do not bring forth the precious mysteries of the faith, for they will despise them, and “trample them under their feet” in the mire.
You are not needlessly to provoke attack upon yourself, or upon the higher truths of the gospel.
You are not needlessly to provoke attack upon yourself, or upon the higher truths of the gospel.
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