“But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man’s judgment: yea, I judge not mine own self.”
I care very little if I am judged by you or by any human court; indeed, I do not even judge myself — Paul's indifference to Corinthian judgment (anakrisis, examination) is not arrogance but theological clarity: human judgment is not the standard. Even self-judgment is inadequate. Only God judges rightly; all other judges, including himself, are unreliable.
Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 4:3
Together with all other ills, I know not how, there has come upon man's nature the disease of restless prying and of unseasonable curiosity, which Christ Himself chastised, saying, Matthew 7:1 “Judge not, that you be not judged.” A kind of thing, which has no pleasure as all other sins have, but only punishment and vengeance. For though we are ourselves full of ten thousand evils, and bearing the “beams” in our own eyes, we become exact inquisitors of the offenses of our…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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