Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—F

Faithful

in Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, is seized at Vanity Fair, burnt to death, and taken to heaven in a chariot of fire. A Puritan used to be called Brother Faithful. The abiding disciples of any cult are called the faithful.

Jacob Faithful.
The hero of Captain Marryat's novel so called. Father of the faithful. Abraham (Rom. iv.; Gal. iii. 6-9).

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