Timorous and Mistrust reveal that they were also journeying, but had decided to turn back for fear of their very lives...
Timorous: But the farther we go the more danger we meet with; wherefore we turned, and are going back again.
Mistrust: Yes, for just before us lie a couple of lions in the way...
Christian: You make me afraid; but wither shall I flee to be safe? If I go back to my own country, that is prepared for fire and brimstone, and I shall certainly perish there. If I can get to the Celestial city, I am sure to be in safety there. I must venture. To go back is nothing but death; to go forward is fear of death, and life everlasting beyond it: I will yet go forward.
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