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 first be overcome;
   Who live abroad would, first must die at home.

6.  Greatheart again and again at the river-side, Greatheart sending pilgrim after pilgrim over the river with rapture, and he himself still summoned to turn his back on the Celestial City, and to retrace his steps through the land of Beulah, through the Valley of the Shadow of Death, and through the Valley of Humiliation, and back to the Interpreter’s house to take on another and another and another convoy of fresh pilgrims, and his own abundant entrance still put off and never to come,—­our hearts bleed