APPOLYON: That is pure sentiment. Consider again in cold blood, what you are likely to encounter in the way you have chosen. You know that, for the most part, his followers suffer reproaches, perils, weariness, stripes, stonings, imprisonment, pain, and death, all because they oppose me and my kingdom. Think how many of them have been put to horrible death! And your master never came from His mysterious, invisible, exalted dwelling place to deliver them. How can you count his service better than mine? Not many of my servants have ever been martyred. All the world knows very well that I deliver, either by power or by fraud, those who have followed me, from your Master and His power. And be sure I will deliver you.
CHRISTIAN: When He, for a time, does not deliver His servants from trouble, it is for their good; it strengthens their faith and their love for the right, and affords an opportunity for them to show the sincerity of their love and add to their rewards. And as for the death you speak of, it is only temporary. he delivers His servants out of death, and gives them a perfect life beyond. His servants do not expect immediate deliverance from the petty dangers and discomforts of this present perishing world, but are willing to wait on the Lord, knowing full well that they shall be more than well rewarded for all their sufferings, when He comes in His glory with all His holy angels.
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