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Herein not forbidding to arraign and correct; but forbidding to make light of our own sins, and magnify those of others. For it behoves you first diligently to examine how great may be your own sins, and then try those of your neighbour; whence it follows, and then shalt thou see clearly to cast the mote out of thy brother’s eye. [8]
The Mote in God's Eye (originally titled Motelight) [2] is set in Pournelle's CoDominium universe, where a union of the United States and the Soviet Union produced a world government and a number of colonies in other star systems, followed by nuclear war on Earth and the rise of the First Empire based on the planet Sparta several centuries before the events of the novel.
The 'speck' or 'mote' is translated from the Greek κάρφος (karphos) that can also mean "any small dry body". [1] The previous verse introduced the metaphor of a person with a plank in their own eye who criticizes someone for a speck in their eye.
The metaphor is a rather extreme one. The word translated as mote or speck [2] can refer to a tiny splinter or piece of sawdust, or colloquially to any minute object. [3] The word translated as beam refers to a rafter or a log [2] such as would hold up the roof of a house. [3]
The Parable of the Mote and the Beam by Domenico Fetti c. 1619. The Mote and the Beam is a parable of Jesus given in the Sermon on the Mount [1] in the Gospel of Matthew, chapter 7, verses 1 to 5. The discourse is fairly brief, and begins by warning his followers of the dangers of judging others, stating that they too would be judged by the ...
World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King is the second expansion set for the massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) World of Warcraft, following The Burning Crusade. It launched on November 13, 2008 and sold 2.8 million copies within the first day, making it the fastest selling computer game of all time released at that point.
The Corrupted Blood debuff being spread among characters in Ironforge, one of World of Warcraft's in-game cities. The Corrupted Blood incident (also known as the World of Warcraft pandemic) [1] [2] took place between September 13 and October 8, 2005, in World of Warcraft, a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed by Blizzard Entertainment.
World of Warcraft Cosmic Map, showing Azeroth (bottom right corner) and Outland (top left corner) In a change from the previous Warcraft games produced by Blizzard, World of Warcraft is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) where thousands of players can interact with each other. Despite this change, the game draws many ...