Conclusion and Application: Two Builders.
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{c 49 But he} a that heareth these words of mine, and doeth them not shall be likened unto {c is like} a a foolish man, who {c that} built a {a his} house upon the sand: {c earth} without a foundation;
descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and smote upon that house; {c against which the stream brake,} and straightway it fell in; a and great was the fall thereof. c and the ruin of that house was great. [We do not need to go to Palestine to witness the picture portrayed here. Whole towns on the Missouri and the lower Mississippi have been undermined and swept away because built upon the sand. Jesus here limits the tragedy to a single house. "A single soul is a great ruin in the eyes of God" (Godet). Jesus did not end his sermon with a strain of consolation. It is not always best to do so.]
a 28 And it came to pass, when Jesus had finished these words, the multitudes were astonished at his teaching:
29 for he taught them as one having authority, and not as their scribes.
[See Section 31.]29 for he taught them as one having authority, and not as their scribes.