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(2 Cor. 3, 12–18; Luke 6, 1–10) The Lord's disciples pluck the ears of corn, rub them with their hands, and eat them on the Sabbath. The matter is very unimportant both in appearance and in essence; Meanwhile, the Pharisees could not resist and reproached them. What made them bring this up? In appearance it is unreasonable jealousy, but in its essence there is a spirit of overjudgment. This one clings to everything and presents everything in a gloomy form of lawlessness and destructiveness. This weakness is, to a greater or lesser extent, almost common among people who do not pay attention to themselves. In short, not everyone will express judgmental thoughts, but few people can resist them. Someone sits down on the heart and inflames it with gossip - it exudes them. But at the same time, the gossiper himself is ready to do evil deeds, as long as no one sees, and is certainly in bad order in some respect; it is as if he then judges and condemns, so that the sense of truth, insulted and suppressed in himself, is rewarded by attacks on others, even if they are wrong. He who loves truth and stands in truth, knowing how difficult it is to be correct in business, and even more so in feelings, will never judge; he is rather ready to cover with leniency not only the small, but also the great crime of others. The Lord does not judge the gossiping Pharisees, but condescendingly explains to them that the disciples did an act that anyone, having judged properly, can excuse. And it almost always happens like this: judge the action of your neighbor and you will find that he does not at all have that important, terrifying character that seemed to you in him the first time. You might be interested in: