“He is like a man which built an house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock: and when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and could not shake it: for it was founded upon a rock.”
They are like a man building a house, who dug down deep and laid the foundation on rock. When a flood came, the torrent struck that house but could not shake it, because it was well built — the house on rock withstands the flood because the foundation was laid on rock after digging down deep. The digging down deep communicates the effort required for the solid foundation — it is not the easy or obvious choice but the one that withstands the test. The flood that strikes both houses is the same test — the outcome depends entirely on the foundation.
Church Fathers on Luke 6:48
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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