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holy conduct, & then you may be prepared, & there will be some propriety in your admonishing your brother, & helping him to purify hims. fr. his lesser iniquities. The words mote & beam, were proverbial among t. Jews for, little & great sin. The metaphor wh. our Lord introduces to issustrate his meaning was very pertinent, & set t. absurdity of a censorious spirit in a just point of light. How perfectly riduculous would it be for an unclear to pretend that he saw a small mote in his neighbour's eye, when he hims. was really blind with a beam in his own, he would render himself contemptable. But This is really t. case with prejudiced carpers at other men's failings, they think they see many motes or sins in their neighbours, but are blind to their own enormities. While they are thus blind to their crimes, how contemptable do they