put to it; for he had gone but a short way, when he saw a foul

sh; he had wings like a huge bat, feet like a bear, and out of his throat came fire and smoke, and his mouth was as t

you? and to what pl

truction, which is the place of all

rince and god of it. How is it, then, that thou hast run off from thy king? Were it not t

on; 'for the meed of sin is death': for this cause, when I was come to years, I did, as some who think do, look

who serve him come to an ill end, for that they spurn my laws and walk not in my paths. What a host of them have been put to deaths of shame! And still thou

for the ill end thou dost say they come to, that tells for their good: for to be set free now they do not much look for it; f

n thy turns to serve him; and how

let me say, these faults held hold of me in thy land; for there I did suck them in, an

foe to this Prince: I hate him, his laws, and they who s

r I am on the King's high road, the way o

by the which, in spite of all that Christian could do to shift it, Apollyon hit him in his head, his hand, and foot. This made Christ

light hope of life. But, as God would have it, while Apollyon dealt his last blow, by that means to make a full end of this good man, Christian at once put out his hand for his sword, caught it, and said, "When I fall, I shall then rise"; and with that gave him a fierce thrust, which made him

ive thanks to him that hath kept me out of the mouth of the chief

tree of life," the which Christian took and laid them on the w