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"This was the dungeon of the gaol in Bedford, in which Bunyan was imprisoned for conscience’ and the Gospel's sake. How God makes the wrath of man to praise him! When the fierce Domitian had banished John to the wild and barren rock of Patmos, then heaven itself opens to his view, and he is commanded to write the words of the Revelation. Jealousy and hatred imprisoned Luther for ten months in the castle of Wartburg; but God made use of the interval by permitting the great Reformer, in this his Patmos, to translate the Scriptures into the tongue of the German nation. And so Bunyan is now withdrawn from the agitation and excitement of the world outside, and in what he calls his 'den,' he sees visions, and dreams dreams, and indites the wondrous parables and allegories in which, 'though dead, he yet speaketh.'"[1]