“For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:”
Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror — the mirror image (katoptron) provides a vivid illustration of the hearer's predicament: momentary recognition without lasting transformation. The one who merely hears the word catches a glimpse of what they should be, but fails to translate that vision into lived reality. The comparison assumes that self-knowledge without action is ultimately futile.
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