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.