text:  So great appeared the modesty of each of the soldiers with regard to his appreciation of his own merits as a good Christian--so little his confidence in his own powers of holiness to wrestle with the fiend of darkness in the shape which now approached them--that they seemed disposed rather humbly to quit the field than encounter Sir Apollyon in so glorious a contest; when the dim light of the moon revealed the figure as it came forward to be that of the witchfinder