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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 (ἔπεσεν).
But the best texts read συνέπεσεν, fell together, collapsed. Rev., fell in. Only here in New Testament. In medical language used of the falling-in of parts of the body. Thus Hippocrates, “the temples fallen in: the limb quickly collapses or shrivels.” Matthew uses the simple verb ἔπεσεν, fell.
Ruin (ῥῆγμα)
Lit., breaking. Only here in New Testament. A medical term for a laceration or rupture. Matthew has πτῶσις, the fall.