The grammatical shift from an abstract quality to a concrete actor is a major reason why many people—and historical traditions—view the Tempter or the Devil as a literal person.
Benjamin Lee Whorf’s essay “An American Indian Model of the Universe,” published posthumously in Language, Thought, and Reality, advances one of the most provocative claims in twentieth-century linguistic anthropology
I want you to be shocked into the reason that gets to a point. I want you to be shocked with TRUTH and not with emotionalism in order to ‘get to Truth’, ‘a point on a line’, ‘a direction’, ‘intention’, etc.