Lest perhaps, after he has laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him,

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

But he that hears, and does not, is like a man that without a foundation built a house upon the earth; against which the stream did beat vehemently, and immediately it fell; and the ruin of that house was great.

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