The Pulpit Commentary on Matthew 7:24

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

Therefore whosoever hoareth; Revised Version, every one therefore which heareth ( πᾶς οὖν ὅστις , Matthew 10:32). The relative used lays stress on the quality implied in the verb: every one who is of the kind that hears (contrast Matthew 7:26).

These sayings (Revised Version, words) of mine, and doeth them. Not the individual utterances ( ῥήματα, John 6:63), nor the substance of my message considered as a whole ( λόγον, Matthew 13:1-58 :(19) 20), but the substance of its parts, the various truths that I announce ( λόγους).

I will liken him; Revised Version, shall be likened, with the manuscripts. Not shall, in fact, be made like, Matthew 6:8 (Weiss), but shall be likened in figure and parable. Unto a wise man. Prudent, sensible ( φρόνιμος).

Which built his house upon a rock; Revised Version, the rock. Which in not a few cases may be found at no great distance from the surface.

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