No words are put in the Bible for effect. The Bible talks to us so we can understand. God could use language that no one could understand. But we can not understand all by simply hearing and reading. When we see we will know.

"I stood one day beside a blacksmith's door,

And heard the anvil beat and the bellows chime;

Looking in, I saw upon the floor

Old hammers worn out with beating years and years of time.

"'How many anvils have you had?' said I,

'To wear and batter all these hammers so?'

'Just one,' said he, then said with twinkling eye,

'The anvil wears the hammers out, you know.'

"So methought, the anvils of God's word—