Daily Bible illustrations : being original readings for a year, on subjects from sacred history, biography, georgaphy, antiquities, and theology : Especially designed for the family circle . rhaps, incited by biibes fromthe Jewish leaders, treated Him with great harshness. Thelictors performed their usual duty of scourging the condemned;but besides this, the men, taking the hint frum the purple robewith which Herod had invested Him, proceeded to place onhis head a crown of thorns,* and put a reed in his hand for asceptre. They then kneeled in mockery to Him, crying Hail, king of the Jews!—and
Daily Bible illustrations : being original readings for a year, on subjects from sacred history, biography, georgaphy, antiquities, and theology : Especially designed for the family circle . rhaps, incited by biibes fromthe Jewish leaders, treated Him with great harshness. Thelictors performed their usual duty of scourging the condemned;but besides this, the men, taking the hint frum the purple robewith which Herod had invested Him, proceeded to place onhis head a crown of thorns,* and put a reed in his hand for asceptre. They then kneeled in mockery to Him, crying Hail, king of the Jews!—and then they spat upon Him, * There is a plant common in the East, -wliieli bears the name ofChrists Thorn [Zizyphus Spina Chriati), being supposed to have sup-plied^ the materials for our Lords thorny crown. It is very fit for thepurpose, the branches being soft, round, and pliant, and armed withsmall sharp spines. THE ROMAN TRIAL. 415 and, snatching the reed from his hand, smote the thorny crowntherewith, driving the spikes into his brows. It has been the cus-tom of late to treat this punishment of scourging lightly. Butit was, in fact, frightfully severe. The scourging was far more. harsh than that in use among the Jews—which also inflictedno disgrace—but that of the Romans was only inflicted uponslaves and foreigners. The scourge was formed of thongstwisted together, and in order to increase the severity of thelash, small pieces of bone were sometimes woven into it; andthe strokes were so severe as to tear and lacerate the flesh. The influence which our Lord had evidently by this timeacquired over the mind of Pilate—accustomed as he was towitness scenes of blood, and to inflict human sufiering—was nat-urally strenghtened by every effort he made to save Him. Thepunishment now inflicted was probably with the hope that thismeasure of satisfaction to their wild hatred would pacify theJews, and enable him to drop farther proceedings. The patientdignity which Jesus manifes
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