“Whosoever cometh to me, and heareth my sayings, and doeth them, I will shew you to whom he is like:”
As for everyone who comes to me and hears my words and puts them into practice, I will show you what they are like — the parable of the two builders follows the Lord-Lord saying as the sermon's conclusion. Comes to me, hears my words, puts them into practice: the three elements of genuine discipleship. The parable will contrast two hearers who both come and hear — the difference is in the putting into practice.
Church Fathers on Luke 6:47
Lest any one should vainly flatter himself with the words, Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks, as if words only and not rather works were required of a Christian, our Lord adds the following, But why call you me Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say? As if He said, Why do you boast of sending forth the leaves of a right confession, and show forth no fruit of good works.
But Lordship both in name and reality belongs only to the Highest Nature.
This is not then the word of man, but the Word of God, manifesting His own birth from the Father, for He is the Lord Who is born of the Lord alone. But fear not the duality of Persons, for they are not separate in nature.
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