Derek Thomas

So universalists were alive and well, of course, in the 17th century.

And here's one called Mr. Save All.

Now, it all sounds like a conversation about health and wealth as you overhear the conversation between buy-ins and Mr. Money Love and Save All and Hold the World.

And eventually, they drift out of the story.

Hopeful and Christian now pass through a narrow plain called Ease with this little hill called Luker.

Luca was a 16th, 17th century word for money.

Hence, the King James talks about filthy Luca, meaning the love of money.

And there's a place now in this story called Luca with a silver mine in it.

A man called Demas calls out and, hopeful, is tempted to go back and have a look.

But Christian senses the danger and stops him because Demas in the New Testament is

the man who, having loved this present world, forsook Paul.

On the highway, Christian and hopeful come across a statue of a woman with the inscription, Remember Lot's Wife.

There's a discussion about the dangers of covetousness.

Next they come to a river where the two stop and take a drink.

On either side are meadows and pasture and leaves that are good for medicine.

There's a recognition here of passages like Psalm 23 and Ezekiel 47 and Revelation 22.

They lie down, they fall asleep.

Actually, they spend several days there.

And then they go on and the road becomes considerably more difficult.

And on the left is a meadow called Bypath Meadow.