Now I saw in my dream, that thus they sat talking
together until supper was ready. So when they had made ready, they sat down to meat. Now the table was
furnished with fat things, and with wine that was well refined; and all their
talk at the table was about the Lord of the hill; as, namely, about what he had
done, and wherefore he did what he did, and why he had builded that house; and
by what they said, I perceived that he had been a great warrior, and had fought
with and slain him that had the power of death, but not without great danger to
himself, which made me love him the more.
For, as they
said, and as I believe, said Christian, he did it with the loss of much blood.
But that which put the glory of grace into all he did, was, that he did it out
of pure love to his country. And besides, there were some of them of the
household that said they had been and spoke with him since he did die on the
cross; and they have attested that they had it from his own lips, that he is
such a lover of poor pilgrims, that the like is not to be found from the east
to the west. They, moreover, gave an instance of what they affirmed; and that
was, he had stripped himself of his glory that he might do this for the poor;
and that they heard him say and affirm, that he would not dwell in the mountain
of Zion alone. They said, moreover, that he had made many pilgrims princes,
though by nature they were beggars born, and their original had been the
dunghill.
