8 thoughts on “Matthew 7:1-12 – Judging and Asking – Episode 420”

  1. I understand the “pearls before swine” instruction to mean that after you’ve tried talking to someone about the gospel and they’ve shown that they reject it, then you should move on. Similar to Jesus instructions in Matthew 10:14 “If anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words, leave that home or town and shake the dust off your feet.” (NIV) See also Luke 9:5, Mark 6:11.

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  3. Regarding the “dogs and swines”, I find the Ellicott’s commentary mentions it as distinct forms of evil -impurity and ferocity respectively, as mentioned by you. Also, it goes on to elaborate –
    “We are met by the questions, Are we, then, to class our fellow-men under these heads, and to think of them as dogs and swine? Is not this to forget the previous teaching, and to judge with the harshest judgment? The answer to these questions must be found, we may believe, in thinking of the dogs and swine as representing not men and women as such, but the passions of this kind or that which make them brutish. So long as they identify themselves with those passions, we must deal cautiously and wisely with them.”

    I believe the key is in ‘So long as they identify themselves with those passions, we must deal cautiously and wisely with them’.

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