Verse 28
The contrast is between the person who listens to falsehood and repeats it, and the person who listens to the truth and repeats it. The first person has little concern for listening carefully, but the second person listens, learns, and applies. Heeding the truth makes all the difference.
"The key phrase is a man who hears: his first aim is to know and understand, not to grind some axe. . . . the man who listens (Isaiah 50:4) is the man worth listening to." [Note: Kidner, p. 146.]
Ross believed that the verse teaches that "false witnesses will be discredited and destroyed." [Note: Ross, p. 1058. Cf. McKane, p. 556.]
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