He is like a man, who built an house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock: and when the flood arose, the stream broke vehemently upon that house, but could not shake it; for it was founded on a rock.

But he that heareth, and doth not, is like a man that built an house without a foundation upon the earth: against which the stream broke vehemently, and immediately it fell: and the breach of that house was great.

So that the blood of all the prophets shed from the foundation of the world, shall be required of this generation.

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