Did Jesus Redeem Mankind? — Page 229
? 222 hang a person on the Cross, he was made to stand pat against this wood-piece and his out stretched 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 Cross had an aspect of terror, and caused severe mental torture to the sufferer who now saw the nails then the hammer, again the hammerman rising to drive the nail, now the nail placed against the body, oh,