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The Holy War

John Bunyan · 1682 · The Losing and Taking Again of the Town of Mansoul

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The Holy War
John Bunyan (1628–1688)

John Bunyan's classic Christian allegory describing the spiritual battle for the city of Mansoul. The story presents the conflict between Diabolus and Emmanuel and offers a powerful allegorical picture of temptation, sin, repentance, redemption, and spiritual warfare.

This Web Book follows the public-domain 1907 Religious Tract Society transcription (Project Gutenberg eBook 395). Bunyan’s wording is not modernized. Chapter numbers follow the LibriVox recording by Joy Chan and are for reading navigation; the 1682 book itself is a continuous narrative after the verse prefaces.

About this text: John Bunyan died in 1688; the original work is in the public domain. The 1907 transcription used here is also in the public domain in the United States. Later copyrighted introductions and school notes are not included. Scripture citations open the NKJV Bible on UECF.NET.
  • 19 chapters
  • 2 verse prefaces
  • 99,727 words
  • 499 min read
  • English
  • First published 1682

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