This man (ουτος ο ανθρωπος). This fellow, contemptuous or sarcastic use of ουτος.

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…

Saying, this man began to build
He set out well, he promised great things, and made a considerable bluster and stir, as if he …

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…