Lest haply (ινα μηποτε). Double final particles (positive and negative with addition of ποτε). Used here with aorist middle subjun…

Haply. Perhaps.

To mock him. To ridicule him. To laugh at him.

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…

Lest haply after he has laid the foundation
Has begun to build, has taken up a profession, has submitted to ordinanc…

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…