2. For with what judgments ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what
measure ye mete--whatever standard of judgment ye apply to others.
it shall be measured to you again--This proverbial maxim is used by our
Lord in other connections--as in
Mr 4:24,
and with a slightly different application in
Lu 6:38
--as a great principle in the divine administration. Unkind judgment of
others will be judicially returned upon ourselves, in the day when God
shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ. But, as in many other
cases under the divine administration, such harsh judgment gets
self-punished even here. For people shrink from contact with those who
systematically deal out harsh judgment upon others--naturally
concluding that they themselves may be the next victims--and feel
impelled in self-defense, when exposed to it, to roll back upon the
assailant his own censures.
JFB.
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