Pro 14:25 | KingComments | STEP | “A truthful witness” tells the truth and thereby saves the life of someone who would be killed on false charges. Opposed to this is “he who utters lies”, literally “breathes out lies”. He deceives judges and brings ruin. He is not an occasional deceiver, but the personification of deceit. This is because he is descended from the father of lies, the devil, whose nature he reveals. A truthful witness is one who brings the gospel. He bears witness to the truth of his own salvation. Whoever listens to his testimony and follows his advice to also go to the Savior is saved by him, as it were. In the gospel he throws to him the rescue buoy. He is not himself that rescue buoy, but he throws it to him. In the fullest sense of the word, the Lord Jesus is the faithful and true Witness and therefore the Savior of lives.

‏ Proverbs 14:25

A Savior of Lives or Uttering Lies

“A truthful witness” tells the truth and thereby saves the life of someone who would be killed on false charges. Opposed to this is “he who utters lies”, literally “breathes out lies”. He deceives judges and brings ruin. He is not an occasional deceiver, but the personification of deceit. This is because he is descended from the father of lies, the devil, whose nature he reveals.

A truthful witness is one who brings the gospel. He bears witness to the truth of his own salvation. Whoever listens to his testimony and follows his advice to also go to the Savior is saved by him, as it were. In the gospel he throws to him the rescue buoy. He is not himself that rescue buoy, but he throws it to him. In the fullest sense of the word, the Lord Jesus is the faithful and true Witness and therefore the Savior of lives.