But each person is tempted when they are dragged away by their own evil desire and enticed — the imagery shifts to the internal origin of sin, where one's own epithymia (desire/lust) functions as the actual tempter. The verbs exelkō and deleazō evoke hunting imagery: desire lures the person away from safety toward danger. This anthropology emphasizes human agency and responsibility; sin does not descend from above but rises from within corrupted desires. The chain extends: desire → temptation → sin → death, each stage the natural consequence of the previous.

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