on his
shoulder to refresh you on your journey. "Good boy!" said Christiana to
Joseph her youngest son, "Good boy! I had almost forgot!"

5. When old Mr. Honest began to nod after the good supper that Gaius
mine host gave to the pilgrims, "What, sir," cried Greatheart, "you begin
to be drowsy; come, rub up; now here's a riddle for you." Then said Mr.
Honest, "Let's hear it." Then said Mr. Greatheart,

"He that will kill, must first be overcome;
Who live abroad would, first must die at home."

"Hah!" said Mr. Honest, "it is a hard one; hard to expound, and harder
still to practise." Yes; this after-supper riddle of Mr. Greatheart is a
hard one in both respects; and for this reason, because the learned and
much experienced guide--learned with all that his life-long quarters in
the Interpreter's House could teach him, and experienced with a
lifetime's accumulated experience of the pilgrim life--has put all his
learning and all his life into these two mysterious lines. But old
Honest, once he had sufficiently rubbed up his eyes and his intellects,
gave the answer:

"He first by grace must conquered be
That sin would mortify.
And who, that lives, would convince me,
Unto himself must die."

Exactly; shrewd old Honest; you have hit off both Greatheart and his
riddle too. You have dived into the deepest heart of the Interpreter's
man-servant. "The magnanimous man" was Aristotle's masterpiece. That
great teacher of mind and morals created for the Greek world their
Greatheart. But, "thou must understand," says Bunyan to his readers,
"that I never went to school to Aristotle or Plato. No; but to Paul, who
taught Bunyan that what Aristotle calls magnanimity is really
pride--taught him that, till there is far more of the Christian religion
in those two doggerel lines at Gaius's supper-table than there is in all
The Ethics taken together. And it is only from a personal experience of
the same life as that which the guide puts here into his riddle that any
man's proud heart will become really humble and thus really great, really
enlarged, and of an all-embracing hospitality like Cromwell's and
Greatheart's and John Bunyan's own. Would you, then, become a Greatheart
too? And would you be employed in your day as they were employed in
their day? Then expound to yourself, and practise, and follow out that
deep riddle with which Greatheart so woke up old Honest:

"He that will kill, must f