Good measure, pressed down. — The imagery clearly points to a measure of grain, so pressed and shaken that it could hold no more.

Into your bosom. — The large fold of an Eastern dress over the chest, often used as a pocket.

With the same measure that ye mete. — See Notes on Matthew 7:2; Mark 4:24, for the varied applications of the proverb.

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