The word excruciating
The word excruciating comes from Latin. Not a big surprise necessarily. It comes from the Latin word excruciatus, which means 'out of the cross'. Crucifixion was not only the most demeaning method of capital punishment, but by far the most painful and horrendous.
The Romans could make you suffer long by putting a small seat to help support you. Some lasted for three days of this agony. Christ was tortured and starved first. This may be why He died in only six hours, which surprised even Pontius Pilate. Though no one knows the method used to crucify Him, the quickest means of death was usually when they nailed one foot to each side of the cross, making it more painful to support yourself, thus exhausting you more quickly, and as you collapsed your lungs affixiated. Everyone died from lung affixiation almost, but there were different methods to speed it up or slow it down.
In the case of this Passover time crucifixion, they had to get it over quickly. The two thieves on either side of Jesus had their legs broken to induce heart attacks. Jesus' quick death prevented that from happening, to fulfill Biblical prophecy.
The Romans could make you suffer long by putting a small seat to help support you. Some lasted for three days of this agony. Christ was tortured and starved first. This may be why He died in only six hours, which surprised even Pontius Pilate. Though no one knows the method used to crucify Him, the quickest means of death was usually when they nailed one foot to each side of the cross, making it more painful to support yourself, thus exhausting you more quickly, and as you collapsed your lungs affixiated. Everyone died from lung affixiation almost, but there were different methods to speed it up or slow it down.
In the case of this Passover time crucifixion, they had to get it over quickly. The two thieves on either side of Jesus had their legs broken to induce heart attacks. Jesus' quick death prevented that from happening, to fulfill Biblical prophecy.
posted by CottonSr @ 6:55 AM
1 Comments:
At 8:28 AM,
Sara said…
Jesus died at 3 p.m. which was the time the priests were sacrificing the lambs in the temple. I think too that the scripture which says he "gave up the ghost" shows that he was still in control and gave his life willingly, it wasn't taken from him. That's my understanding anyway. The whole crucifixion scenario shows that great evil lurks in the hearts of men. It's not enough to dream up such a horrendous method of torture and death, but to have the stomach to inflict it on other persons shows the depths men can sink too. Having their hearts so hardened against compassion, it was truly amazing that even one of the Roman soldiers was able to recognize that Jesus was indeed the Son of God.
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