Against its walls no enemy ever comes; neither warfare nor hunger nor thirst nor suffering nor death.

This which David builded is a poor city, a humble city compared to that New Jerusalem.

There the King is already come; there the citizens are at peace and in love with one another.

There thou shalt have all that thy heart yearneth after, and all that thy heart yearneth after shall be right." In that city would it be right that she love Hesper instead of Philadelphus, and that she should have her lover instead of her lawful husband?
While she turned these things over in her mind, he wisely went on with his story.

Shrewdly sensing the young woman's anxiety, the old Christian guessed the interest to her of the Messiah's history before His teaching and began with prophecy to support the authenticity of the wonderful Galilean's claim to divinity.