Both Uses of
wrest
in
Go Tell It on the Mountain
- This was not belief but unbelief, not humility but pride: there worked in the heart of such a one the same desire that had hurled the son of the morning from Heaven to the depths of Hell, the desire to overturn the appointed times of God, and to wrest from Him who held all power in His hands powers not meet for men.†
Chpt 2.2
- She did not know why he so adored things that were so long dead; what sustenance they gave him, what secrets he hoped to wrest from them.†
Chpt 2.3 *
Definition:
obtain with difficult effort or force