What is noteworthy is that Matthew's narrative is wholly lacking in any notion of an "intervening" sacrifice for sins (the case is similar in Matthew 25 where "foundation of the world" also appears in a context of final judgment):
That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation [καταβολῆς] of the world. Then Jesus sent the multitude away, and went into the house: and his disciples came unto him, saying, Declare unto us the parable of the tares of the field. He answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man; The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one; The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end [συντέλεια] of the world; and the reapers are the angels. As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end [συντελείᾳ] of this world. The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. ... So shall it be at the end [συντελείᾳ] of the world: the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just, And shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
-- Matthew 13:35ff., 49f.
The narrative in Hebrews borrows this terminology but reinterprets the apocalypticism in the christological and soteriological terms which came to rationalize the Son of man's death as well as individual deaths among mankind generally. The Son of man now has to come back a second time at some unspecified but presumably near future date to effect the final judgment which did not occur the first time (obviously this too is now long "delayed"):
For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us: Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others; For then must he often have suffered since the foundation [καταβολῆς] of the world: but now once in the end [συντελείᾳ] of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.
-- Hebrews 9:24ff.
What Matthew 13 imagines intervening is repentance in obedience to the warning, variously demonstrated by accepting the message with a good heart, turning away from evil, and bearing good fruits of righteousness, by selling everything one has to acquire the kingdom, giving to the poor, etc.
