Inasmuch as, etc. The Judge at once disallows all such pleas. He exacts nothing which any good man, Christian or not, might not have done. As before, identifying himself with the human race, he shows that, in neglecting to perform acts of mercifulness and charity to the afflicted, they disregarded him, despised him.
dishonoured him. One of the least of these. He adds not "brethren," as above (Matthew 25:40), because the evil acknowledge no such brotherhood; they live for self alone, they own not their real relation to the whole family of man.