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Updated: October 28, 2026
It is a rare thing for Bunyan to use a foreign word; but all pious persons in his time were familiar with, and generally used, the Puritan or Genevan Bible, vulgarly called the Breeches Bible, an extremely valuable book; in the marginal notes of which, on this passage is the following explanation, "wilde gourdes," which the apoticaries call coloquintida, and is most vehement and dangerous in purging. Ed.