For they look at themselves, go away, and immediately forget what they look like — the swift forgetting (epilanthanomai) represents the hearer's failure to be transformed by what the word reveals about them, their sin, their need for transformation. The moment the word is no longer directly before them, its impact evaporates. This portrayal suggests that hearers without corresponding action experience only transient conviction, never reaching the deep reorientation that leads to genuine change.

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