Matthew 15:14. Let them alone. His disciples are not to begin an attack upon the Pharisees. Error, if let alone, defeats and destroys itself. Let it work out its self-destructive results!

They are blind guides. They profess to be teachers, but have themselves no spiritual sight. If then the blind guide the blind , those who follow such are of course blind also.

Beth shall fall into the pit, which lies in their path; from the nature of the case a pit of destruction. Here the effect on the persons is spoken oil Discussions and controversies are to be instituted by Christians with the sole purpose of saving men, the defeat of false doctrine being left to its own self-destructive tendency.

As Luke (Luke 6:39) in his report of the Sermon on the Mount, gives the same figure in a different connection, we may infer that it became proverbial in our Lord's teachings. The general principle is obvious, but it admitted of various applications. Here it is used to enforce a lesson of patience; in Luke it is connected with instruction about harsh judgments.

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