he is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid the foundation on the rock. And when a flood arose, the stream broke against that house and could not shake it, because it was well built.

But he who hears and does not do them is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation; against which the stream broke, and immediately it fell. And the ruin of that house was great."

Otherwise, when he has laid the foundation, and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him,

that the blood of all the prophets which was shed from the foundation of the world may be required of this generation,