Thanks. Include also the verses: "Except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that do so" [Psalm 127:1] and "I [the Son] will build my church ...".
The Hebrew holds the key to our understanding of a lot of NT passages.
579 posted on 01/27/2007 11:32:18 AM PST by Uncle Chip
(TRUTH : Ignore it. Deride it. Allegorize it. Interpret it. But you can't ESCAPE it.)