Well, welcome back to another episode of Five Minutes in Church History.

On this episode we are talking about a word.

You may have never heard before, or maybe you have.

It is bibline.

Now, do you know what that word means?

Do you know who said it?

If you guessed that Charles Haddon Spurgeon said it, you'd be right.

And if you guessed who he said it about, and if you guessed John Bunyan, well then you'd

be right again.

So this is what Charles Haddon Spurgeon said about John Bunyan.

Well, let me give you the full quote.

Spurgeon writes, oh, that you and I might get into the very heart of the word of God,

and get that word into ourselves.

I have seen the silkworm eat into the leaf and consume it.

So what we to do with the word of the Lord, not crawl over its surface, but eat right

into it till we have taken it into our inn most parts.

It is idle merely to let the eye glance over the words or to recollect the poetical expressions

or the historic facts, but it is blessed to eat into the very soul of the Bible until

at last you come to talk in scriptural language, and your very style is fashioned upon scripture

models, and what is better still, your spirit is flavored with the words of the Lord.

Now we get to Bunyan.

Spurgeon says, I would quote John Bunyan as an instance of what I mean.

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