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Both (3) and (4) are principles the character of which is relative to the situational context, but the rules derived from (3) will be objective -
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- Publisher
- Wiley
- Copyright
- Copyright © 1991 Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company
- ISSN
- 0018-1196
- eISSN
- 1468-2265
- DOI
- 10.1111/j.1468-2265.1991.tb00154.x
- Publisher site
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Abstract
NOTES 1 The next verse reads: ‘For in the way you judge, you will be judged; and by your standard of measure, it shall be measured to you’. The Old Testament contains a text which is similar to Matthew 7:1. In Ezekiel 7:27 God is reported as saying: ‘According to their conduct I shall deal with them, and by their judgments I shall judge them’. (Quotes from biblical texts are taken from The New American Standard Bible, Carol Stream, Ill., Creation House, Inc., 1960.)—When read in conjunction with the parallel passage in Luke 6:37 (‘do not pass judgment and you will not be judged; and do not condemn, and you shall not be condemned; pardon, and you will be pardoned’), Jesus' principle is often regarded simply as a specific warning not to condemn others. However, his statement can also be intrepreted more generally as laying down an absolute principle banning all moral judgement whatsoever. Thus, for example, Schweizer suggests that Matthew 7:1–2 asks us ‘to forgo judging entirely’, because ‘we are lost as long as we live at all by the categories of weighing, measuring, and classifying’ (Eduard Schweizer, The Good News According to Matthew , translated by
Journal
The Heythrop Journal – Wiley
Published: Apr 1, 1991