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The images James uses to describe the power of the tongue (3:1-12) were well chosen to communicate to his original readers. The Greek playwright Sophocles spoke of wild horses being tamed by a small bit in the mouth. The Jewish philosopher Philo compared one's senses to a helmsman steering a boat. And the Roman historian Plutarch compared a loose tongue to a blazing forest fire.
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