The Mote and the Beam
In illustration of Matt. 7, 3–5 the commentaries are accustomed to quote from Jewish sources the Talmudic treatises ‘Arakin 16b and Baba Batra 15b. Thus A. H. McNeile, The Gospel according to St. Matthew (1915), says with reference to Matt. 7, 3: “An illustration of the warning in v. 1. It was perha...
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Cambridge Univ. Press
1924
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Harvard theological review
Year: 1924, Volume: 17, Issue: 4, Pages: 393-404 |
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| Summary: | In illustration of Matt. 7, 3–5 the commentaries are accustomed to quote from Jewish sources the Talmudic treatises ‘Arakin 16b and Baba Batra 15b. Thus A. H. McNeile, The Gospel according to St. Matthew (1915), says with reference to Matt. 7, 3: “An illustration of the warning in v. 1. It was perhaps another current proverb. R. Tarphon (beg. 2d cent, A.D.) lamented that men in his day could not accept reproof; if one said to another, ‘Cast the mote out of thine eye,’ he would answer, ‘Cast the beam out of thine eye’ (Erach. 16b; cf. B. Bath. 15b); but this was possibly an attack on the New Testament words.” W. C. Allen, A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Gospel according to S. Matthew (1907), remarks on the same verse: “Cf. Arachin 16b, where R. Tarphon (end first cent. A.D.) says: ‘If one says, Take the mote from thy eye, he answers, Take the beam from thine eye.’” J. A. Broadus in his Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew (1886), says: “The illustration our Lord uses is found several times in the Talmud; e.g. ‘I wonder whether there is any one in this generation who is willing to receive reproof. Nay, if one says to another, Cast out the splinter from thine eye, he will reply, Cast out the beam from thine eye.’” The list could be continued at length. |
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| ISSN: | 1475-4517 |
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0017816000014097 |