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Or how will you tell your brother, `Let me remove the speck from your eye;` and behold, the beam is in your own eye?
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The Hypocrisy of Criticism
Commentators unanimously identify the root of the critical spirit described here as hypocrisy. To focus on a minor fault in someone else while ignoring a major sin in your own life is, as Charles Spurgeon notes, 'sheer hypocrisy.' Jesus uses this absurd image to expose the insincerity of those who are quick to censure others but slow to examine themselves.
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19th Century
Anglican
How will you say — that is, how will you have the face to say.
Baptist
Or how will you say to your brother, Let me pull out the mote out of your eye; and, behold, a beam is in your own eye?
A blind man …
The “speck of sawdust” could be any bit of foreign matter. The “plank” is obviously colorful hyperbole. Jesus does not say it is wrong to help a fe…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Or how will you say to your brother? This is not so much an interrogation, as an expression of admiration, at the front a…
Presbyterian
We must judge ourselves and judge our own acts, but not make our word a law for everyone. We must not judge rashly, nor pass judgment on our brothe…
13th Century
Catholic
Christ fulfilled the Law regarding its precepts and its promises; now He fulfills the Law regarding its judgments. Firstly, therefore, He directs t…
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