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He that heareth and doeth not (ho de akousas kai mē poiēsas). Aorist active participle with article. Particular case singled out (punctiliar, aorist).
Like a man (homoios estin anthrōpōi). Associative instrumental case after homoios as in Luk 6:47.
Upon the earth (epi tēn gēn). Mat 7:26 has “upon the sand” (epi tēn ammon), more precise and worse than mere earth. But not on the rock.
Without a foundation (chōris themeliou). The foundation on the rock after deep digging as in Luk 6:48.
It fell in (sunepesen). Second aorist active of sunpiptō, to fall together, to collapse. An old verb from Homer on, but only here in the N.T.
The ruin (to rēgma). The crash like a giant oak in the forest resounded far and wide. An old word for a rent or fracture as in medicine for laceration of a wound. Only here in the N.T.