He is like a man which built a house: and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock. When the waters arose, the flood beat upon that house, and could not move it. For it was grounded upon a rock.

But he that heareth and doth not, is like a man, that without foundation built a house upon the earth, against which, the flood did beat: and it fell by and by. And the fall of that house was great."

Lest after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to perform it, all that behold it, begin to mock him,

"The days will come, when of these things which ye see, shall not be left stone upon stone that shall not be thrown down."