Luke 6:41

And why behold you the speck that is in your brother's eye, but perceive not the beam that is in your own eye?
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Hippolytus of Rome

AD 235
Since the great body of (the heretics) do not employ the counsel of the Lord, by having the beam in the eye,

Tertullian of Carthage

AD 220
Just as a good tree cannot produce evil fruit, so neither can truth generate heresy; and as a corrupt tree cannot yield good fruit, so heresy will not produce truth. Thus, Marcion brought nothing good out of Cerdon's evil treasure; nor Apelles out of Marcion's.

The Apostolic Constitutions

AD 375
Those who are under the bishop will not be able to support and vindicate him: for they will say to him what is written in the Gospel, "Why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? "

Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation - 2 Peter 1:20

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