If Alma’s listeners hearkened to the plea he made and which is recorded in the previous verse, his words, he said, would be like unto a seed which is planted in fertile ground. He indicated that in their hearts could be found the proper soil in which to sow the seed, or east his words. The seed so planted would eventually produce good fruit in abundance if unbelief did not smother its tender shoots. Let the Spirit of the Lord nurture every thought harbored by the seed, or fostered by his words; let it be a refuge, we imagine Alma saying, when doubt and drought assail the struggling seed, or the heart because of malnutrition begins to fail. If this is done Alma expressed indirectly to them, you will grow in grace and in the knowledge of God, or of that which is just and true. More directly he said that the seed so planted and cared for “Will begin to swell within your breasts; and when you feel these swelling motions, ye will begin to say within yourselves—”It must needs be that this is a good seed, or that the word is good, for it beginneth to enlarge my soul; yea, it beginneth to enlighten my understanding, yea, it beginneth to be delicious to me."