Advise from the Saints on Judging Subscribe   
   From:  wknight001   6/26/2001 5:44 pm  
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From: Matthew 7:1-5 
Various Precepts: Do Not Judge 
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(Jesus said to His disciples,) [1] "Judge not, that you be not judged. 
[2] For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and the 
measure you give will be the measure you get. [3] Why do you see the 
speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is 
in your own eye? [4] Or how can you say to your brother, `Let me take 
the speck out of your eye,' when there is the log in your own eye? 
[5] You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye." 

A person whose sight is distorted sees things as deformed, even 
though in fact they are not deformed. St. Augustine gives this advice: "Try to acquire those virtues which you think your brothers lack, and you will no longer see their defects, because you will not have them yourselves" ("Enarrationes In Psalmos", 30, 2, 7). In this connection, the saying, "A thief thinks that everyone else is a thief" is in line with this teaching of Jesus. 

- The Navarre Bible Commentary 

The world, living in denial, often seems to think that everything must be like its multifold and varied and each individual denial. The truth is solid, concrete, and like a bar, runs through all Creation. It can be seen if you discard that criticism, that selfishness, that need to be--In denial, so that the self does not need to change, so that the self can be.. self centered. 

Sincerely, 

Jeffrey Thomas 
+AMDG 



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