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Thirty-sixth Day

'Judge not.' — Matt. vii. i, 2, seq.

' JUDGE not.’ There is a judge above you; a judge Who will try your judgments, and demand an account of them; who, by a just sentence, will punish you for having passed sentence on others without authority and without knowledge: — the two greatest defects that a judgment can have.

(I.) Without authority: — 'who art thou that judgest another man’s servant? To his own master he standeth or falleth'[1]: — it is for the master only to judge.

Judge not, then, him whose judge you are not.

And what St Paul adds to this should serve yet more to close your mouth, O rash judge! You pronounce on the state of another man’s servant, and say that he has either fallen or is

  1. ↑ Rom. xiv. 4.
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