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The Gospel of the Day – Mt 7,1-5
1 Do not judge others, or you yourselves will be judged.
2 As you have judged, so you will be judged, by the same rule; award shall be made you as you have made award, in the same measure.
3 How is it that thou canst see the speck of dust which is in thy brother’s eye, and art not aware of the beam which is in thy own?
4 By what right wilt thou say to thy brother, Wait, let me rid thy eye of that speck, when there is a beam all the while in thy own?
5 Thou hypocrite, take the beam out of thy own eye first, and so thou shalt have clear sight to rid thy brother’s of the speck.
Commentary on the Gospel:
Judge not, rashly and malignantly, that ye, &c. Christ does not here prohibit the public judgments of magistrates, by which they condemn the guilty and absolve the innocent, for this is necessary in all commonwealths, but only private judgments, and that when they are rash, envious, detractive, for they are repugnant to charity and justice, yea to God Himself, whose office of judgment is usurped. For we have not been set to be judges but companions of our neighbours. Wherefore if we have an evil opinion of him we do him an injury. And we take away his good fame if we let this judgment go abroad; for reputation is a great good, greater far than riches. So S. Jerome, Bede, and Basil. The Gloss says, “There is scarcely any one who is found to be free from this fault.” Hear S. Augustine (102 Serm. de Temp.): “Concerning those things, then, which are known to God, unknown to us, we judge our neighbours at our peril. Of this the Lord hath said, Judge not. But concerning things which are open and public evils, we may and ought to judge and rebuke, but still with charity and love, hating not the man, but the sin, detesting not the sick man, but the disease. For unless the open adulterer, thief, habitual drunkard, traitor, were judged and punished, that would be fulfilled which the blessed martyr Cyprian hath said, ‘He who soothes a sinner with flattering words, administers fuel to his sin.’” S. Anthony gives the cause of perverseness in rash judgment, when he says, “We are often deceived as to the motives of actions. The judgment of God, who sees all things, is another thing from ours. But it is right that we should suffer one with another, and bear one another’s burdens.” So S. Athanasius, in his Life.
That ye be not judged, i.e., neither by men nor God. Ye will escape very many unjust judgments of others, or, anyhow, ye will not experience the severe judgment of God. Hear S. Augustine: “The temerity wherewith thou dost punish another will punish thyself. Injustice always injures him who does the wrong.”
Leontius, Bishop of Cyprus, in his Life of S. John the Almoner, c. 35, relates that Vitalius, who converted many harlots, was slapped on the face, and judged to be a fornicator, by a certain person; but this judge was in turn slapped on the face by the devil, and possessed by him, and could only be delivered by coming as a suppliant to the cell of Vitalius, who was dead. When he came thither, there was found written on the pavement, by the hand of God, “0 ye men of Alexandria, judge not before the time until the Lord shall come.” Wisely saith S. Bernard (Serm. 40 in Cant.), “Make an excuse for the intention with which a thing is done, when you cannot excuse the thing itself; set it down, if possible, to ignorance, inadvertence.”
For with what judgment, &c. Says S. Chrysostom, “In what way thine own sins shall be examined, thou hast thyself provided a rule, by judging severely the things in which thy neighbour has offended, for ‘judgment without mercy shall be awarded to him who has shown no mercy,’ says S. James” (ii. 13).
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