Matthew 7:4 (WEB)
Or how will you tell your brother, ‘Let me remove the speck from your eye,’ and behold, the beam is in your own eye?
Catechism · 1
“Our attitude to our neighbour will disclose acceptance or refusal of grace and divine love.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Mt 5:22; 7:1-5.
Fathers and councils · 18
Ambrose of Milan
“Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine own eye, and then shalt thou see to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye.”” — editor's note: S. Matt. vii. 4, 5.
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Basil the Great
“It would be better for men who so easily shift their own position, not to examine other men’s motes but to cast out the beam in their own eye.” — editor's note: cf. Matt. vii. 4.
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Jerome
“You write to me of these—nay, of one in particular—a lounger who is to be seen in the streets, at crossings, and in public places; a monk who is a noisy news-monger, clever only in detraction, and eager, in spite of the beam in his own eye, to remove the mote in his neighbor’s.” — editor's note: Matt. vii. 3–5.
Read the whole comment“When I have wished to remove the mote from my neighbour’s eye, I have first cast out the beam in my own.” — editor's note: Matt. vii. 3–5.
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John Cassian
- John Cassian, The Institutes VIII.5Book VIII
“…brother’s eye, he see not the beam in his own eye, for how will he see to cast out the mote from his brother’s eye, who has the beam of anger in his own eye?” — editor's note: Cf. S. Matt. vii. 3–5.
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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 Matthew
- Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on Matthew
The Lord having admonished us concerning hasty and unjust judgment; and because that they are most given to rash judgment, who judge concerning things uncertain; and they most readily find fault, who love rather to…
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He speaks of such as though themselves guilty of mortal sin, do not forgive a trivial fault in their brother.
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As if he perhaps have sinned in anger, and you correct him with settled hate. For as great as is the difference between a beam and a mote, so great is the difference between anger and hatred. For hatred is anger…
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Many do this, if they see a Monk having a superfluous garment, or a plentiful meal, they break out into bitter accusation, though themselves daily seize and devour, and suffer from excess of drinking.
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Otherwise; This is spoken to the doctors. For every sin is either a great or a small sin according to the character of the sinner. If he is a laic, it is small and a mote in comparison of the sin of a priest, which…
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Otherwise; The sin against the Holy Spirit is to take from God power which has influences, and from Christ substance which is of eternity, through whom as God came to man, so shall man likewise come to God. As much…
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That is, with what face can you charge your brother with sin, when yourself are living in the same or a yet greater sin?
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When then we are brought under the necessity of finding fault with any, let us first consider whether the sin be such as we have never had; secondly that we are yet men, and may fall into it; then, whether it be one…
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Otherwise; “How sayest thou to thy brother;” that is, with what purpose? From charity, that you may save your neighbour? Surely not, for you would first save yourself. You desire therefore not to heal others, but by…
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For to reprove sin is the duty of the good, which when the bad do, they act a part, dissembling their own character, and assuming one that does not belong to them.
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And it is to be noted, that whenever He intends to denounce any great sin, He begins with an epithet of reproach, as below, “Thou wicked servant, I forgave thee all that debt;” [Matt 18:32] and so here, “Thou…
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For having removed from our own eye the beam of envy, of malice, or hypocrisy, we shall see clearly to cast the beam out of our brother’s eye.
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Cross-references · 28
Parallel passages
Matthew 7:4 and Luke 6:42 share the same wording (15 words).
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Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies VIII.1.
Cited together in Concerning Repentance II.8.
Cited together in Letters Letter 50.
Cited together in Concerning Repentance II.8.
Cited together in Letters Letter 50.
Cited together in Letters Letter 50.
Cited together in Letters Letter 50.
Cited together in Concerning Repentance II.8.
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