Matthew 7:3-5 And why behold you the mote that is in your brother's eye, but consider not the beam that is in your own eye?… I have got a piece of plate, probably two hundred years old, for the table at meal time. On the silver is embossed a representation of the mote and the beam; a man with a spiked log sticking into his eye is trying hard to pick a tiny grain out of the eye of another. Perhaps you may think it most inappropriate to have such a group and subject on a piece of plate before one's eyes commonly. But I do not think so. It is when families meet, or guests assemble round the board, that the characters of neighbours are most freely talked over. (Baring Gould, M. A.) Parallel Verses KJV: And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? |
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