3 When we put bits in the mouths of horses to make them obey us, we control their whole body also.4 Look at the ships too, though they are so large, even when driven by fierce winds they are turned by a very small rudder, wherever the impulse of the helmsman wills.5 So also the tongue is a small member and makes great boasts. Behold, how great a forest is set on fire by a little spark!6 And the tongue is a fire; it is a very world of iniquity among our members, defiling the whole body, and setting on fire the wheel of nature, and is itself set on fire by hell.7 For while every kind of beast and bird, and of reptiles and sea- creatures are tamable, and actually have been tamed by mankind,8 no man can tame the tongue, restless evil that it is, full of deadly poison.