The Pulpit Commentary on Matthew 7:4

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

Parallel passage: Luke 6:42. Or. A second case is supposed. You may only see the mote or you may offer to remove it. How; with any conscience. Wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out? Let me ( ἄφες, Luke 3:15).

There is nothing here of the rudeness that so often accompanies censeriousness. Pull out; Revised Version, cast out ( ἐκβάλω). The thought is of the completeness, not the method, of the removal (of.

Matthew 9:38). A beam; the beam (Revised Version); i.e. the beam already mentioned.

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