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¹ LET there not be many teachers among you, my brethren, but know that a greater condemnation we incur.² For (in) many we all offend. Every one who in word offendeth not, this is a perfect man, who is able to make subject also all his body.³ For, behold, bridles into the mouth of horses we throw that we may make them submissive to us, and their whole body we turn.⁴ Also the mighty ships, while the furious winds drive them, by a little wood are turned about to the region which the will of him who guideth doth contemplate.⁵ So also the tongue is a small member, and uplifteth itself. A little fire also burneth many forests; [fn] ⁶ and the tongue is a fire, a world of sin, like a forest is the tongue itself among our members; it defileth all of our body, and burneth the course of our generations which run (forward) as a wheel, and kindleth also itself with fire.⁷ For every nature of animals, and of birds, and reptiles of the sea, and of the dry land, have been subjected to the human nature;⁸ but the tongue no one can subdue; this is an evil not ordered, (and) full of the poison of death.⁹ For by it we bless the Lord and the Father, and by it we curse men who in the likeness of Aloha were made;¹⁰ and from the same mouth go forth curses and blessings. My brethren, it is not fit that these should so be done.¹¹ Can it be that one fountain shall send forth waters sweet and bitter ?¹² 12 Or can the fig-tree, my brethren, make olives, or the vines figs? thus also [fn] salt waters cannot be made sweet.