“Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.”
With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse human beings, who have been made in the image of God — the contradiction is laid bare: the same tongue that blesses the divine also curses those made in God's image (eikon theou). The juxtaposition of blessing (eulogeō) God and cursing (kataraomai) humans is presented as a monstrous inconsistency. The invocation of humanity's imaging of God suggests that to curse a person is to assault a reflection of the divine.
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