<p>1:14 <i>But each man is tempted, when he is dragged away by his own lust and enticed</i>- See on :13. It could be that James is arguing against the popular view that temptation is due to the overpowering swamping of a person by a cosmic satan. Instead, we are to understand temptation as coming from our &ldquo;<i>own</i> lust&rdquo;, internally. We can take ownership and control over the source of temptation, which is within us. We are not merely puppets of some external cosmic forces. Those internal lusts are personified here as a women enticing and then dragging away her male victim. Proverbs uses similar metaphor, appealing for the &ldquo;young man&rdquo; to be wise and to resist her. The Judaist false teachers are described with the same word for &ldquo;enticed&rdquo; (2 Pet. 2:14,18). The essence of the enticement was an appeal to the flesh, to the internal mechanism of temptation within each person.</p>