Luke 6:49

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 [ε π ε σ ε ν]. 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 [ρ η γ μ α]. Lit., breaking. Only here in New Testament. A medical term for a laceration or rupture. Matthew has ptwsiv, the fall. :Luke 7

CHAPTER VII

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