he is like to a man building a house, who did dig, and deepen, and laid a foundation upon the rock, and a flood having come, the stream broke forth on that house, and was not able to shake it, for it had been founded upon the rock.

'And he who heard and did not, is like to a man having builded a house upon the earth, without a foundation, against which the stream brake forth, and immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house became great.'

that the blood of all the prophets, that is being poured forth from the foundation of the world, may be required from this generation;

lest that he having laid a foundation, and not being able to finish, all who are beholding may begin to mock him,