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Matthew 7:2

Matthew 7:2

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

Parallels to the second clause in and , For. Explanatory of" that ye be not judged." The principle of your own judgment will be applied in turn to yourselves. With what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.

The judgment ( κρίμα) is the verdict; the measure is the severity or otherwise of the verdict. In both clauses the passives refer to judgment by God, as is even more clear in . The saying, "with what measure," etc.

, is found in Mishua, 'Sotah,' ("With the measure with which a man measures do they measure to him"), where it is applied to the jus talionis in the case of a woman suspected of adultery ().

Again. Omitted by the Revised Version, with the manuscripts. It was naturally inserted by the copyists, either as an unconscious deduction or from the parallel passage in Luke; but it is absent in the characteristically Jewish form of the saying found in the Mishna.

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