Luke 6:41 (WEB)
Why do you see the speck of chaff that is in your brother’s eye, but don’t consider the beam that is in your own eye?
Fathers and councils · 13
Gregory the Great
“(Matth. vii. 3; Luke vi. 41).” — the author cites it
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Tertullian
“Thus, Marcion brought nothing good out of Cerdon’s evil treasure; nor Apelles out of Marcion’s.” — editor's note: Luke vi. 41–45. Cerdon is here referred to as Marcion’s master, and Apelles as Marcion’s pupil.
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Hippolytus of Rome
“Since the great body of (the heretics) do not employ the counsel of the Lord, by having the beam in the eye, and announce that they see when in reality labouring under blindness, it seems to us expedient in no wise to be silent concerning the tenets of these.” — editor's note: Matt. vii. 3, 4; Luke vi. 41, 42.
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Catena Aurea on Luke
- Cyril of AlexandriaCatena Aurea on Luke
The Lord added to what had gone before a very necessary parable, as it is said, And he spake a parable to them, for His disciples were the future teachers of the world, and it therefore became them to know the way of…
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Or else, If thou judgest another, and in the very same way sinnest thyself, art not thou like to the blind leading the blind? For how canst thou lead him to good when thou also thyself committest sin? For the…
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Or the sense of this sentence depends upon the former, in which we are enjoined to give alms, and forgive injuries. If, says He, anger has blinded thee against the violent, and avarice against the grasping, how canst…
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Or, He has added the words, Can the blind, lead the blind, in order that they might not expect to receive from the Levites that measure of which He says, They shall give into thy bosom, because they gave tithes to…
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But the Lord introduces another parable taken from the same figure, as follows, But why seest thou the mote (that is, the slight fault) which is in thy brother’s eye, but the beam which is in thine own eye (that is,…
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Now this has reference to the previous parable, in which He forewarned them that the blind cannot be led by the blind, that is, the sinner corrected by the sinner. Hence it is said, Or, how canst thou say to thy…
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As if He said, How can he who is guilty of grievous sins, (which He calls the beam,) condemn him who has sinned only slightly, or even in some cases not at all? For this the mote signifies.
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But these words are applicable to all, and especially to teachers, who while they punish the least sins of those who are put under them, leave their own unpunished. Wherefore the Lord calls them hypocrites, because…
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That is to say, first shew thyself clean from great sins, and then afterwards shalt thou give counsel to thy neighbour, who is guilty only of slight sins.
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In truth, self knowledge seems the most important of all. For not only the eye, looking at outward things, fails to exercise its sight upon itself, but our understanding also, though very quick in apprehending the…
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Cross-references · 17
Cited together with
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies VIII.1.
Cited together in Cyril of Alexandria on Luke 6:39–42 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.10.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies VIII.1.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.10.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.10.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.10.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.10.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies VIII.1 and 1 other place.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies VIII.1.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies VIII.1.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies VIII.1.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies VIII.1.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies VIII.1.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies VIII.1.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies VIII.1.
Parallel passages
Matthew 7:3 and Luke 6:41 share the same wording (23 words).
