Luke 6:49
“But he that heareth, and doeth not, is like a man that without a foundation built an house upon the earth; against which the stream did beat vehemently, and immediately it fell; and the ruin of that house was great.”
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Barnes' NotesPresbyterian pastor, 1798–1870Luke 6:20-49
See this passage fully illustrated in the sermon on the mount, in Matt. 5–7. Luk 6:21 That hunger now - Matthew has it,…
Adam ClarkeMethodist theologian, 1762–1832
The ruin of that house was great - On this passage, father Quesnel, who was a most rigid predestinarian, makes the…
Matthew HenryNonconformist minister, 1662–1714Luke 6:37-49
All these sayings of Christ we had before in Matthew; some of them in ch. 7, others in other places. They were sayings…
Cambridge BibleAcademic commentary, 1882–1921
upon the earth In St Matthew, more graphically, "upon the sand;" e.g. the sand of superficial intellectual acceptance.
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