“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.”
But the one who hears my words and does not put them into practice is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. The moment the torrent struck that house, it collapsed and its destruction was complete — the house without a foundation collapses completely when the same flood strikes. The destruction is complete: not damaged but destroyed. The without a foundation communicates the visible inadequacy of the builder who chose the easy surface rather than digging to the rock. Hearing without doing is the foundation of sand — it looks like a house but cannot withstand the test.
Church Fathers on Luke 6:49
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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