lest haply, after having laid the foundation, and being unable to finish it, all who look upon it begin to ridicule him,

that the blood of all the prophets, which hath been shed since the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation:

he is like to a man, building a house, who digged, and sunk deep, and laid the foundation on a rock; and when there was a flood, the river rushed violently against that house, and was not of force to shake it, for it was founded on a rock.

But he that heareth, and doth not practice, is like a man who built his house on the earth without a foundation; against which the river rushed violently, and immediately it fell; and the crash of the fall of that house was great.