The Pulpit Commentary — Matthew — Volume 1 — Section 287

sec.rct of overcoming being found in treating • Bab. Ba.tbre.,' IM, Rabbi Jochanan (third olbiirs as one would like to be treated one's oentury A.D.),expounding Ruth i. l, ea.ye," A self (vcr. 12). generation which when under judgment (l!lDt'lii>) judgcth its judges. When one Ver. 1.-Parallel passage: Luke vi. 87. eaith to a man, CIUlt out the mote out of Judge not. Not merely "do not ooudemn," thine eyes, he saith (in answer), Cast out for this would leave t-00 much latitude ; nor, the beam out of thine eyes." In Ta.Im. Bab., on the other hand, "do not ever judge," for • Emch.,' 1611, "Out of thy teeth" seems this is Eornetimes our duty ; .but "do not be to be the right reading. In these verses nlwa,s judging" (µ:,, 1<pi~,.,..). Our Lord the "eye" ie usually to.ken as belonging opposes the censorious spirit. "Let us solely to the illustration, and as not itseli therefore be lowly minded, brethren, laying .-epresenting any one objeot. It me.y be sside all arrogance, and oonoeit, and folly, &'\, but it has been used so recently (oh. and anger, and let us do th11.t which is written vi. 22) of the spiritual sense that it is more . . . most of all remembering the words of ne.t.i.rol to take it so here. In thie case the the Lord Jesus which he spake, teaching thought of the passage is of faults existing forbearance and long-suffering; for thus he in a me.n'e spiritual sense hindering hie spake . . . ' As ye jndge, so shall ye be spiritual vision. The censorious ma.n sees judged,'" Clem. Rom.,§ 13 (where see Bishop any fault, however small, readily enough in Lightfoot's note; cf. also Resch,' Agraphe.,' others, but does not see the much greater pp. 96, 136 ff.); cf. 'Ab.,' i. 7 (Taylor), fault which he himself e.s· e. matter of fa.et "Judo-e everv man in the scale of merit;" ha.s-his own censorio.llllneee. This cen- i.e. let the scale incline towards the side soriousness is not a slight, but a great hin- of merit or acquittal. That ye be not drance to his own spiritual vision, muoh judged; i.e. by God, with special reference more to hie being of -use in removing hin- to the last day (cf. Jas. ii. 12, 13: v. 9; drances from the eye·of e.nother. The mote; Rom. ii. 3). Ha.rdlv of judgm.ent by men, .,.;, 1td.p</Jos; Latt. jest,11,Cam; any small vege- e.s Barrow (serru. ix.): "Men take it for table body, The'-English word is from the allowable to retaliate in this way to the Anglo-Se..xou mot, "a emall particle" (cf. height, and stoutly to load the censorious further Luke vi. 41, note). Observe that man with ceIISll1'e." onr Lord allows that there is something Ver. 2.-Parallels to the 110Cond clause in wrong with the brother's spiritua.~ vision, Lnke vi. 38 and Mark iv. 24. ll'or. Ex- just as he allows that the unmerciful ser- planatory of" that ye be not judged." The vant had a real debt owing to him. That is principle of your own jndgment will be in thy brother's eye (eh. v. 22, note). Onr applied in tnrn to yourselves. With what Lord ie here speaking of the relation of be- jndgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and lievers to fellow-believers. He tacitly con- with what measure ye mete, it shall be traste the censoriousnes~ of the Pharisees measured to you aga.il!. The judgment towards fellow-Jews (John vii. 49). But (1<piµa) is the verdict; the measure ie the considerest not (ob 1<aTczvo,i's). With any severity or otherwise of the verdict. In both attention of mind; contrast Rom. iv, 19 clauses (cf. ver. I, note) the passives refer (Abraham gave earnest consideration to hie to judgment by God, as is even more clear own a.ge, and yet beli~ved). T~e be~. So in Mark iv.24. The saying," with what mea- huge a piece of wood lS there m thme own sure," etc., is found in Miehna, 'Sotah,' L 7 eye That is in thine own eye. The order (" With the measure with which a man of the Greek lays still more emphasis on the measures do they measure to him"), where fact that, though in thy very own eye there it is applied to the jWI ta.Uonis in the case of is a bea.m, thou pa.yest no regard to that (cf, a woman suspected of adultery (Numb. v. 11 ver. 5, note). -31). .Again. Omitted by the Revised Ver. 4.-Parallel passage: Luke vi. 42a. Version with the manuscripts. It '\'l'as Or. A second case is supposed. You may only natnro.n'y inserted by the copyists, either as see the mote or you may offer to remove it. au unconscious deduction or from the parallel How; with any conscience. Wilt thou say to passage in Luke ; b1".t it ie absent in ~he thy brother, Let me pull out 1 Let me (lz</Jor, characteristically Jewish form of the saylllg eh, iii. 15). There ie nothing here of the found in the Miahna. rudeness that so often accompanies cen• Vere. 3-5.-The heinousness of censo- sorionsneBB, Pull out ; Revised Version, CtUt out (i1t/3d.l--.w). The thought is of the riousness as a hindrance to one's self and to completeness, not the method. of the re- one's work for othera. moval (cf. eh. ix. 38). A beam; the beam Ver. 3.-Porallel passage: Luke vi. 41. (Revised Version); i.e. the beam alreu.dy And why-wl.en it is so contrary to oommon mentioned. eell8e-beholdest thou the mote, etc. ? A Ver. 5.-Parallel passage: Luke vi. 42b, Jewish proverbial aaying, e.g. Talm. Bab., Thou hypoorite (<'h. vi 2, note). Tho thought  tin. vn. 1-29.] THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. MATTHEW. 281