Mateo 7:4

4 O ¿cómo dirás a tu hermano: Espera, echaré de tu ojo la mota, y he aquí hay una viga en tu ojo

Mateo 7:4 Meaning and Commentary

Matthew 7:4

Or how wilt thou say to thy brother?
&c.] This is not so much an interrogation, as an expression of admiration, at the front and impudence of such censorious remarkers, and rigid observators; who not content to point at the faults of others, take upon them to reprove them in a very magisterial way: and it is as if Christ had said, with what face canst thou say to thy friend or neighbour,

let me pull out the mote out of thine eye?
give me leave to rebuke thee sharply for thy sin, as it deserves,

and behold a beam is in thine own eye;
thou art guilty of a far greater iniquity: astonishing impudence! Art thou so blind, as not to see and observe thy viler wickedness? Or which, if conscious of, how canst thou prevail upon thyself to take upon thee to reprove and censure others? Dost thou think thy brother cannot see thy beam? And may he not justly retort thine iniquities upon thee, which exceed his? and then what success canst thou promise thyself? Such persons are very unfit to be reprovers of others.

Mateo 7:4 In-Context

2 Porque con el juicio con que juzgáis, seréis juzgados; y con la medida con que medís, os volverán a medir

3 Y ¿por qué miras la mota que está en el ojo de tu hermano, y no echas de ver la viga que está en tu ojo

4 O ¿cómo dirás a tu hermano: Espera, echaré de tu ojo la mota, y he aquí hay una viga en tu ojo

5 ¡Hipócrita! Echa primero la viga de tu ojo, y entonces mirarás en echar la mota del ojo de tu hermano

6 No deis lo santo a los perros, ni echéis vuestras perlas delante de los puercos; no sea que las pisoteen, y se vuelvan y os despedacen