Description of The Coloring Page: a portrait of "Hopeful" from John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. The character Hopeful poses an
inconsistency in that there is a necessity imposed on the pilgrims that
they enter the "King's Highway" by the Wicket Gate. Hopeful did not;
however, of him we read: "... one died to bear testimony to the truth,
and another rises out of his ashes to be a companion with Christian in
his pilgrimage." Hopeful assumes Faithful's place by God's design.
Theologically and allegorically it would follow in that "faith" is trust
in God as far as things present are concerned, and "hope," biblicaly the same as "faith," is trust
in God as far as things of the future are concerned. Hopeful would
follow Faithful. The other factor is Vanity Fair's location right on the
straight and narrow way. Ignorance, in contrast to Hopeful, was
unconcerned about the end times of God, unconcerned with true faith in
Jesus Christ, and gave false hope about the future. Ignorance was told
by Christian and Hopeful that he should have entered the highway through
the Wicket Gate.
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