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| The Manifold Forms of Torture and Punishment practiced against the Christians.
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Chapter LII.—The Manifold
Forms of Torture and Punishment practiced against the
Christians.
“Then, indeed, one might see with what arrogance those
venerable worshipers of God were daily exposed, with continued and
relentless cruelty, to outrages of the most grievous kind, and how that
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which no enemy had
ever treated with disrespect, became the mere sport of their infuriated
fellow-citizens. Is there any punishment by fire, are there any
tortures or forms of torment, which were not applied to all, without
distinction of age or sex? Then, it may be truly said, the earth shed
tears, the all-encircling compass of heaven mourned because of the
pollution of blood; and the very light of day itself was darkened in
grief at the spectacle.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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