MATTHEW 7:4 (KJV) records Jesus confronting hypocritical hearts by asking “…how wilt thou say to thy brother, ‘Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye’; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?” The “mote” of Elizabethan English is a speck or a small particle of something. Shakespeare employs the word and the allusion to Jesus’ words in Hamlet when Horatio comments on Bernardo’s interpretation of the appearance of the ghost, saying, “A mote it is to trouble the mind’s eye” (I, i).
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