And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it. The same storm, the same triple threat — and the house fell. The great was the fall communicates the totality of the collapse: not a partial failure or a recoverable setback but a complete destruction. The greater the investment in an insufficient foundation, the greater the fall when the foundation fails. The religious investment the many have made in works without relationship (verse 22) produces the most devastating collapse — great was the fall — because the investment was so large and the foundation so inadequate.

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