Catena Aurea on Matthew 7:3–5: Augustine of Hippo

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 speak evil and to condemn than to cure and to correct; a fault that spring either from pride or jealousy - therefore He subjoins, “Why seest thou the mote in thy brother’s eye, and seest not the beam in thy own eye?”