d-e-f-e-a-t

Updated: May 9, 2025

But the Wilderness spelled out two words, temptation and victory; temptation such as had never yet been brought, and met, and fought; victory beyond what the race had known. Temptation came to have a new spelling for man, v-i-c-t-o-r-y. It came to have a new spelling for the tempter, d-e-f-e-a-t.

S. D. (Samuel Dickey) Gordon - Quiet Talks on Following the Christ