Luke 6:48 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

digged deep. Greek. digged and deepened. Figure of speech Hendiadys (App-6), for emphasis: i.e. he dug-yea, he dug deep.

a. the. rock. Greek petra. As in Matthew 16:18.

flood, or inundation. Greek plemmura. Only here in N. T

stream. river. Greek. potamos.

beat vehemently. burst or brake.. medical term for. rupture.

for, &c. All the texts read "on account of (Greek. dia) its being well built".

upon. Greek. epi. App-104.

Luke 6:48

48 He is like a man which built an house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock: and when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and could not shake it: for it was founded upon a rock.