Luke 6:49

6:49 anyone who hears and doesn’t obey: See Ezek 33:31-33.

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Luk 6:49 . χωρὶς θεμελίου , without a foundation; an important editorial comment. The foolish builder did not make a mistake in choosing a foundation. His folly lay in not thinking of a foundation, but building at haphazard on the surface. Vide notes on Mt. for the characteristics of the two builders. τὸ ῥῆγμα ( πτῶσις in Mt.), the collapse, here only in N. T. This noun is used to answer to the verb προσέρρηξεν .

The impression produced by the foregoing study is that Lk’s version of the Sermon on the Mount, while faithfully reproducing at least a part of our Lord’s teaching on the hill, gives us that teaching, not in its original setting, but readapted so as to serve the practical purposes of Christian instruction, either by Lk. or by some one before him.

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Verse 49. The ruin of that house was great.] On this passage, father Quesnel, who was a most rigid predestinarian, makes the following judicious remark. "It is neither by the speculations of astrologers, nor by the Calvinian assurance of predestination, that we can discover what will be our portion for ever: but it is by the examination of our heart, and the consideration of our life, that we may in some measure prognosticate our eternal state. Without a holy heart and a holy life, all is ruinous in the hour of temptation, and in the day of wrath." To this may be added, He that believeth on the Son of God, hath the WITNESS in HIMSELF: 1Jo 5:10.

The subjects of this chapter have been so amply explained and enforced in the parallel places in Matthew, to which the reader has been already referred, that there appears to be no necessity to make any additional observations.

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(49) He that heareth, and doeth not.—More specific than St. Matthew in adding “without a foundation,” somewhat less so in giving “on the earth” instead of “on the sand.”

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49. upon the earth] In St Matthew, more graphically, “upon the sand;” e.g. the sand of superficial intellectual acceptance.

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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.

Ver. 49. And immediately it fell] Want of due humiliation, at first conversion, is the ground of apostasy; unless there be care to do it better afterwards, and to make up that which is yet lacking; to cast up the loose earth, ut in solido extruat, as Vitruvius adviseth his builder. (Architect, i. 5.)

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General Information:

Jesus compares the person who hears but does not obey his teaching to a man who builds a house that has no foundation and so will collapse when the flood comes. (See: Simile)

But the person

"But" shows a strong contrast to the previous person who built with a foundation.

on top of the ground without a foundation

Some cultures may not know that a house with a foundation is stronger. Additional information may be helpful. AT: "but he did not dig down and build first a foundation" (See: Assumed Knowledge and Implicit Information)

foundation

the part of a house that connects it to the ground. People in Jesus' time dug down into the ground to the solid rock and then began to build on the rock. That solid rock was the foundation.

torrent of water

"fast-moving water" or "river"

flowed against

"crashed against"

collapsed

fell down or came apart

the ruin of that house was complete

"that house was completely destroyed"

translationWords

word

obey

found

flood

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49. συνέπεσεν אBDL, Edd.

49. ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν. In St Matthew, more graphically, “upon the sand;” e.g. the sand of superficial intellectual acceptance.

συνέπεσεν. ‘It collapsed,’ ‘it fell in a heap.’

τὸ ῥῆγμα. Literally, ‘the breach.’

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49. συνέπεσεν] So we have συμπίπτει στέγη, Eur. Herc. Fur. 905: πόλιν … ὑπὸ σεισμοῦ … ξυμπεπτωκυῖαν, Thuc. viii. 41.

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49. ῇ προσέρηξν ὁ ποταμός Lk. gives only the main incident, the river, created by the rain, smiting the house. But Mt. is much more graphic: κατέβη ἡ βροχὴ καὶ ἦλθον οἱ ποταμοὶ καὶ ἔπνευσαν οἱ ἄνεμοι καὶ προσέκοψαν τῇ οιικιᾳ ἐκείνῃ.

συνέπεσεν. “It fell in,” i.e. the whole fell together in a heap: much more expressive than ἔπεσεν, which some texts (A C) here borrow from Mt.

ἐγένετο τὸ ῥῆγμα. To harmonize with προσέρηξεν. This use of ῥῆγμα for “ruin” (so first in Rhem.) seems to be without example. In class. Grk. it is used of bodily fractures or ruptures, and also of clothes; so also in 1Ki 11:30, 1Ki 11:31; 2Ki 2:12. But Amo 6:2 of rents in a building, πατάξει τὸν οἷκον τὸν μέγαν θλάσμασν, καὶ τὸν οἷκον τὸν μικρὸν ῥάγμασιν Hobart Contrasts the βροχή, προσέκοψαν, ἔπεσεν, and πτῶσις of Mt. with the πλήμμυρα, προσέρρηξεν, συνέπεσεν, and ῥῆγμα of Lk., and contends that the latter four belong to medical phraseology (PP. 55, 56).

The μέγα like μεγάλη in Mt., comes last with emphasis. Divine instruction, intended for building up, must, if neglected, produce disastrous ruin. The κεῖται εἰς πτῶσιν (2:34) is fulfilled. The audience are left with the crash of the unreal disciple’s house sounding in their ears.

Similar Rabbinical sayings are quoted, but as coming from persons who lived after a.d. 100, by which time Christ’s teaching had filtered into both Jewish and pagan thought. “Whosesoever wisdom is above his works, to what is he like? To a tree whose branches are many and its roots few. Then the wind cometh and rooteth it up and turneth it over. And, whosesoever works are above his wisdom, to what is he like? To a tree whose branches are few and its roots many. Though all the winds come upon it, they move it not from its place” (Mishna, Pirqe aboth, 3:27.). And again, “To whom is he like, that with many merits uniteth great wisdom? To him who first layeth adding, yet and then bricks. Though ever so mighty floods wash round the adding, yet they cannot make it give way. But to whom is he like, who knoweth much and fulfilleth little? To him who layette the foundation with bricks, which am disturbed by the least water (Aboth R. Nathan, 23). See Edersh. L.& T. 1. p. 540; Nicholson on Mat 7:24.

1 ins. A C D A H K M R S U V X Γ D L Π most cursives, Vulg. Syr-Harcl. Goth. Arm., Epiph. Chrys. Greg-Naz. Arab. Hieron. and perhaps Clam-Alex. om. א B L six or seven good cursives, Syrr. Boh. Aeth. That evengelistaria omit is not of much moment, as they often omit notes of time.

D D. Cod. Bezae, sæc. vi. Given by Beza to the University Library at Cambridge 1581. Greek and Latin. Contains the whole Gospel.

Tisch. Tischendorf.

WH. Westcott and Hort.

AV. Authorized Version.

RV. Revised Version.

Vulg. Vulgate.

Wic. Wiclif.

Cov. Coverdale.

Rhem. Rheims (or Douay).

Tyn. Tyndale.

Edersh. Edersheim, Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah.

אԠא Cod. Sinaiticus, sæc. iv. Brought by Tischendorf from the Convent of St. Catherine on Mt. Sinai; now at St. Petersburg. Contains the whole Gospel complete.

B B. Cod. Vaticanus, sæc. 4. In the Vatican Library certainly since 15331 (Batiffol, La Vaticane de Paul 3, etc., p. 86).

Win. Winer, Grammar of N.T. Greek (the page refers to Moulton’s edition).

TR. Textus Receptus.

Ign. Ignatius.

Jos. Josephus.

1 Green compares ἐπʼ εὐσεβείᾳ Θεοῦ (Jos. Ant. ii. 8, 1) and πρὸς ἱκετείαν τοῖ Θεοῦ (ii. 9, 3): and, for the art. before προσευχῇ “as an abstract or general term,” Mat 21:22; Act 1:14; 1Co 7:5 (Gram. of N. T. p. 87).

D. B. Smith’s Dictionary of the Bible, 2nd edition.

1 This use of καλούμενος is very common in Lk. (7:11, 8:2, 9:10, 10:39, 21:37, 22:3, 23:33), and still more so in Acts. Not in Mt. Mk. or Jn.

Luth. Luther.

Eus. Eusebius of Cæsarea

Gen. Geneva.

Beng. Bengel.

Lat. Vet. Vetus Latina.

Euthym. Euthymius Zigabenus.

Trench, Trench, New Testament Synonyms.

C

C. Cod. Ephraemi Rescriptus, sæc. 5. In the National Library at Paris. Contains the following portions of the Gospel: 1:2-2:5, 2:42-3:21, 4:25-6:4, 6:37-7:16, or 17, 8:28-12:3, 19:42-20:27, 21:21-22:19, 23:25-24:7, 24:46-53.

These four MSS. are parts of what were once complete Bibles, and are designated by the same letter throughout the LXX and N.T.

A A. Cod. Alexandrinus, sæc. v. Once in the Patriarchal Library at Alexandria; sent by Cyril Lucar as a present to Charles 1. in 1628, and now in the British Museum. Complete.

Aug. Augustine.

Iren. Irenæus.

Cypr. Cyprian.

Syr Syriac.

Sin. Sinaitic.

1

The external evidence stands thus—

For μηδέν ἀπ. A B L R C Γ Δ etc., Latt. syr-Harcl.? Boh.

For μηδένα ἀπ. א Ξ Π *, Syrr. Tisch. is almost alone among recent editors in preferring μηδένα; WH. and RV. place in the margin.

L L. Cod. Regius Parisiensis, sæc. viii. National Library at Paris. Contains the whole Gospel.

X X. Cod. Monacensis, sæc. ix. In the University Library at Munich. Contains 1:1-37, 2:19-3:38, 4:21-10:37, 11:1-18:43, 20:46-24:53.

Wetst. Wetstein.

1 What mischief the common interpretation (sanctioned by the Vulgate, nikil inde sperantes) has wrought in Europe is strikingly shown by Döllinger (Akademische Vorträge i. pp. 223ff.; Studies in European History, pp. 224 ff.). On the strength of it Popes and councils have repeatedly condemned the taking interest, and Christians were forbidden to take it, money-lending passed into the hands of the Jews, and added greatly to the unnatural detestation in which Jews were held. The paradox that Christians may not take interest has been revived by Ruskin. See Morfill and Charles, Book of the Secrets of Enoch, p. 58.

Clem. Alex. Clement of Alexandria.

Clem. Hom. Clementine Homilies.

Grot. Grotius.

Ξ̠Ξ. Cod. Zacynthius Rescriptus, sæc. viii. In the Library of the Brit. and For. Bible Soc. in London. Contains 1:1-9, 19-23, 27, 28, 30-32, 36-66, 1:77-2:19, 21, 22, 33-39, 3:5-8, 11-20, 4:1, 2, 6-20, 32-43, 5:17-36, 6:21-7:6, 11-37, 39-47, 8:4-21, 25-35, 43-50, 9:1-28, 32, 33, 35, 9:41-10:18, 21-40, 11:1, 2, 3, 4, 24-30, 31, 32, 33.

Boh. Bohairic.

Harcl. Harclean.

Latt. Latin.

Goth. Gothic.

Arm. Armenian.

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Upon the earth without a foundation. Matthew, upon the sand. The two men are conceived as alike selecting a spot where the sand overlies the rock. The one builds directly upon the sand, the other digs through and down into the rock.

It fell [επεσεν] . But the best texts read sunepesen, fell together, collapsed. Rev., fell in. Only here in New Testament. In medical language used of falling - in of parts of the body. Thus Hippocrates, "the temple fallen in : the limb quickly collapses or shrivels." Matthew uses the simple verb epesen, fell.

Ruin [ρηγμα] . Lit., breaking. Only here in New Testament. A medical term for a laceration or rupture. Matthew has ptwsiv, the fall. ===Luk7

CHAPTER VII

1 - 10. Compare Mt 8:5 - 13.

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