Build a tower (πυργον οικοδομησα). A common metaphor, either a tower in the city wall like that by the Pool of Siloam ([Reference …

Intending to build a tower. See Matthew 21:33. A tower was a place of defence or observation, erected on high places or in vineyards, to g…

Which of you, intending to build a tower...?—The words do not depend for their meaning on any local or personal allusion, but it is quite …

Do you not think that there are a great many towers of that kind around in our day? I mean, unfinished Christian characters—persons who profess to …

St. Gregory the Great: Because He had been giving high and lofty precepts, the comparison of building a tower immediately follo…

Jesus uses two different circumstances to illustrate his basic point: discipleship requires a conscious advance commitment, made with a realistic e…

For which of you, etc. So that no one may think it hard to follow Christ on the condition of renouncing all his desires, a useful warning …

For which of you intending to build a tower
Taking up a profession of Christ and his Gospel, is like building a towe…

Although the disciples of Christ are not all crucified, they all bear their cross and must bear it in the way of duty. Jesus instructs them to anti…