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The previous verses had discussed an array of rules for proper behaviour and worship. This verse begins a parable of two house builders, one wise and one foolish. The use of the phrase "these words of mine" is an indication that this parable is a summation and conclusion to the entire Sermon on the Mount. [1]
In the previous verses Jesus tells the story of a wise man who builds his house on rock and sees it survive a storm. This verse compares him to a foolish one who builds on sand and has his home washed away. It makes explicit that the story is a metaphor for the danger to those who do not follow the teachings just given in the Sermon on the Mount.
The first part of the collection (verses 23–29) contains warnings against partiality when judging (verses 23–25) or false testimony when being a witness (verse 28; cf. 18:5; 28:21). [12] The second part (verses 30–34) provides an example story of being lazy and its consequences (cf. 7:6–23) reinforcing the lesson of the dilligent ant in ...
The Bible is a collection of canonical sacred texts of Judaism and Christianity.Different religious groups include different books within their canons, in different orders, and sometimes divide or combine books, or incorporate additional material into canonical books.
Matthew 2:11 is the eleventh verse of the second chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament.The magi, dispatched by King Herod, have found the small child (not infant) Jesus and in this verse present him with gifts in an event known as the Visit of the Wise Men.
Proverbs 10:1–22:16, with 375 sayings, consists of two parts, the first part (10–14) contrasting the wise man and the fool (or the righteous and the wicked), the second (15–22:16) addressing wise and foolish speech. [13] Verse 22:17 opens ‘the words of the wise’, until verse 24:22, with short moral discourses on various subjects. [14]
Jerome comments that by being wise the apostles are to avoid snares, and by being harmlessness and simple they are not to do evil. [ 1 ] The Greek word for harmless ἀκέραιοι, which St. Basil says comes from ἀ (not), and κεράννυμι (to mix), i.e. to be unmixed, that is, pure, sincere, being someone who expresses with their ...
The literal meaning of the Greek word translated 'innocent' is 'unmixed'. [11] Elsewhere in the New Testament it is used in a meaning related to the simplicity of children, and it is meant to instruct the twelve that they are to set themselves wholly upon the mission entrusted to them by Jesus. This further shows that the wisdom of snakes, and ...