with what judgement ye judge, ye shall be judged] Oftentimes ye shall finde men as ready to judge amisse of you, as you are of them: or, God will judge as hardly of you (though not unjustly) as ye do of others. Such retaliations, see, Luke 6. 38. James 2:13. Jeremiah 30:16. Ezekiel 35:15. Obad. v. 15. Leviticus 24:19.
and with what measure, &c.] Mark 4:24. Luke 6:38. A proverbiall sentence. It is very equall that a man should buy by that bushel he sells. Ye would be loth to be hardly censured by others; then deal not so with them.