<p>3:7<i>&nbsp;For every kind of beasts and birds, of creeping things and things in the sea, is tamed and has been tamed by mankind</i>-&quot;Mankind&quot; in Greek is from two words- 'Man' and 'kind'. The latter is the same as occurs earlier in the verse, and as well as meaning a genus it fundamentally means 'nature' (see A.V.mg). In the same way as a horse and ship can be &quot;tamed&quot; because we can relatively easily analyse their nature and make them respond in an expected way to a certain stimulus, it seems that some in the ecclesia were thinking that the use of human wisdom could tame our animal human nature. Marshall's Interlinear offers the rendering &quot;every nature of beasts... has been tamed by human nature&quot;. The fact animals have increasingly been tamed by man (&quot;is tamed and hath been tamed&quot;) perhaps encouraged these believers to think that there could be a gradual progression in the taming of human nature also by human strength. The connection between the animals and our bestial sinful instincts would have been appreciated by these brethren; &quot;every kind&quot; of animals had been increasingly tamed, and thus they thought human strength could also tame human nature.</p>