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362 You came in at the gate, did you not?

Yes, yes; for the same man also told us, that all would be nothing if we did not begin to enter this way at the gate.

"Look you," said the guide to Christiana, "the pilgrimage of your husband, with what he has gotten thereby, is spread abroad far and near."

Why, is this Christian's wife?

Yes, that it is, and these also are his four sons.

What! and going on pilgrimage too?

Yes, verily, they are following after.

It glads me at heart. Good man, how joyful will he be when he shall see them that would not go with him, yet to enter after him in at the gates into the City!

Without doubt it will be a comfort to him; for, next to the joy of seeing himself there, it will be a joy to meet there his wife and children.

But, now you are upon that, pray let me hear your opinion about it. Some make a question whether we shall know one another when we are there.

Do they think they shall know themselves, then? or that they shall rejoice to see themselves in that happiness? And if they think they shall know and do this, why not know others, and rejoice in their welfare also? Again, since relations are our second self, though that state will cease there, yet why may it not be wisely