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them. They asked them what dangers they had met and what difficulties they had overcome; and they told them.
"There are still two difficulties which you must surmount, and then you will be in the city," said the men.
"Will you not walk with us until we come to our journey's end?" asked Christian and Hopeful.
"That we will do," answered the men; "but it is by your own faith that you must go on in safety to the Celestial Gate."