Did Jesus Redeem Mankind? — Page 168
168 of their religion. In these days a wooden frame was affixed to serve as Cross. It was shaped like. + When it was decided to hang a person on the Cross, he was made to stand pat against this wood-piece and his outstreched aims were held in place with wooden pieces. Then nails were driven in the fleshy parts of the arms and legs of the convict. He would thus hang there thirsty and hungry till death. . Under certain circumstances, they would also drive a nail each in the palms of the hands, besides the nails driven through the fleshy parts of arms and legs. Those who are well up in anatomy know that it does not hurt the bones in any way. To be brief, at the time of crucifixion, nails were not driven through the bones of the body but through the soft flesh of the arms and forelegs. There is no doubt about it that driving of nails, into the flesh of the body is dangerously harmful to man. Not to say of nails, some persons cry hard when even taking a common injection. . DEATH ON CROSS, A MATTER OF DAYS. Nevertheless, there is not the least doubt about it that death on the Cross took place after quite a few days, the victim passing away in slow agony as death was never sudden. If. Gross had an aspect of terror, and caused severe mental torture to the sufferer who now saw the nails then the hammer, again the hammer-man rising to drive the nail, now the nail placed against the body, oh, the hammer is about to fall--all these things tending to frighten him out of his wits, and he becomes fearfully panic-stricken; as, otherwise, merely piercing of the flesh does not hurt so deeply as to become unbearable. In wars thousands of sword cuts are •