He is like a man building a house, who dug and went deep, and laid a foundation on the rock; but a great rain coming, the stream broke upon that house, and could not shake it, for it had been founded on the rock.

And he that has heard and not done, is like a man who has built a house on the ground without a foundation, on which the stream broke, and immediately it fell, and the breach of that house was great.

that the blood of all the prophets which has been poured out from the foundation of the world may be required of this generation,

in order that, having laid the foundation of it, and not being able to finish it, all who see it do not begin to mock at him,