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"No" of your proposition of the irresistible Good it falls away.
It is the same with many of the words of Scripture, whether we have before observed their wonderful possibilities or not. Take the word "Ho" in the sentence, "Ho, everyone that thirsteth". Students have been surprised to see how appropriate it is to the sentence, outside of a mere exclamation. H-0 were the two letters which in ancient alchemy represented water. In modern chemistry they use the formula H2-O. But it was an expression far beyond the simple first sight of the word.
It is the same with all Scripture language. Take the word "firmament" firm to God in all things. It has the full meaning of a mind firm to holiness, firm to goodness, firm to God in all things. Firm to Good when evil appears, firm to life when death seems near, firm to health when sickness seems reigning, and so on a mind striving to set itself free in steadfastness from the waters of these trials.
The "A" which divides the word "firm" from the word "ment" is the angel in the sun, of whom John the Revelator speaks. When he seems dark he is Abaddon, according to the Hebrew tongue, or Apollyon according to the Greek tongue. When he is the dark angel he is the angel of the bottomless pit. But it is only in misunderstanding that he is darkness. In understanding he is an angel and archangel of light and life and joy. It works out in human character as the forces which are said to follow men as the sun follows them, or as the night follows them.
The first force or quality for which this "A" stands is approbativeness, and this is very strong in all mankind from early childhood. The second is amativeness, which comes later. The third is ambition, which comes in its fullness still later on. The fourth is acquisitiveness, which is yet later. When the character is in the light, these four are seen to be: First, artlessness, which is innocence; second, attractiveness, which is beauty
