Shade of Death, and Christian must needs go through it, for this ca

the right hand a most deep ditch; that ditch is it to which the blind

quag, in the which, strange to say, if a good man

put to it; for when he sought in the dark to shun the ditch on the o

And at times the flame and smoke would come out so thick and with such force, that he had to put up his

ught to mind how he had of late held his foes at bay, and that the risk to go back might be much more than to go on. So he made up his mind to go on: yet the fiends did seem to

he heard the voice of a man, as if in front of him, say thus: "Though I walk t

s well as he; that God was with them, though in that dark and dire state. So he went on. A

as which lay twixt them both. And just at this time the sun rose; and this was one more boon to Christian: for, from the place where he now stood as far as to the end of the vale, the way was all through set so full of snares, traps, gins, and nets, here; an

ce he came to the