I suppose ironic is one word for it....
[1] Judge not, that ye be not judged.
[2] For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
[3] And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
[4] Or 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?
[5] Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
-- Matthew 7:1-5
Now either the above passage is rightly interpreted figuratively with regard to motes and beams, or it's rightly applied literally thus.
-- Figurative application --> Insofar as one is necessarily stained with various sins, the beams, one mustn't judge others.
-- Literal application --> Beams and motes are specific physical things, in which case the proscription doesn't apply to non-motes and non-beams.
Now, one can invoke literal or figurative patristics, but in doing so, one implies the corresponding approach to Biblical interpretation, and thus one must be consistent with regard to the rest of the Bible. I don't care with tack one takes; I care that one is consistent in taking it.
