Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—C

City of Destruction

(The). This world, or rather, the world of the unconverted. Bunyan makes Christian flee from the “City of Destruction” and journey to the “Celestial City,” by which he allegorises the “walk of a Christian” from conversion to death.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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