DAILY READINGS by Charles Spurgeon
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MORNING: March 31 Pilate delivered our Lord to the lictors to be scourged. The Roman scourge was a most
dreadful instrument of torture. It was made of the sinews of oxen, and sharp bones were
inter-twisted every here and there among the sinews; so that every time the lash came down
these pieces of bone inflicted fearful laceration, and tore off the flesh from the bone.
The Savior was, no doubt, bound to the column, and thus beaten. He had been beaten
before; but this of the Roman lictors was probably the most severe of his flagellations.
My soul, stand here and weep over his poor stricken body.
We would fain go to our chambers and weep; but since our business calls us away, we will first pray our Beloved to print the image of his bleeding self upon the tablets of our hearts all the day, and at nightfall we will return to commune with him, and sorrow that our sin should have cost him so dear. |
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From Charles H. Spurgeon's Morning and Evening.
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