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Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Volume 33 · 1887

On the Cross after Death

John 19:31-37

CRIMINALS who were crucified by the Romans were allowed to rot upon the cross. That cruel nation can hardly be so severely condemned as our own people, who up to a late period allowed the bodies of those condemned to die to hang in chains upon gibbets in conspicuous places.