>>
> >>AND THEY CRUCIFIED HIM
> >>
> >>A medical doctor provides a physical description:
> >>
> >>The cross is placed on the ground and the exhausted man is quickly
thrown
> >>backwards with his shoulders against the wood. The legionnaire feels for
the
> >>depression at the front of the wrist. He drives a heavy, square
wrought-iron
> >>nail through the wrist deep into the wood. Quickly he moves to the other
> >>side and repeats the action, being careful not to pull the arms too
tightly,
> >>but to allow some flex and movement. The cross is then lifted into
place.
> >>The left foot is pressed backward against the right foot, and with both
feet
> >>extended, toes down, a nail is driven through the arch of each, leaving
the
> >>knees flexed. The victim is now crucified.
> >>
> >>As he slowly sags down with more weight on the nails in the wrists,
> >>excruciating fiery pain shoots along the fingers and up the arms to
explode
> >>in the brain -- the nails in the wrists are putting pressure on the
median
> >>nerves. As he pushes himself upward to avoid this stretching torment, he
> >>places the full weight on the nail through his feet. Again he feels the
> >>searing agony of the nail tearing through the nerves between the bones
of
> >>his feet.
> >>
> >>As the arms fatigue, cramps sweep through his muscles, knotting them
deep
> >>relentless, and throbbing pain. With these cramps comes the inability to
> >>push himself upward to breathe. Air can be drawn into the lungs but not
> >>exhaled. He fights to raise himself in order to get even one small
breath.
> >>
> >>Finally, carbon dioxide builds up in the lungs and in the blood stream,
and
> >>the cramps partially subsided. Spasmodically, he is able to push himself
> >>upward to exhale and bring in life-giving oxygen.
> >>
> >>Hours of limitless pain, cycles of twisting, joint-renting cramps,
> >>intermittent partial asphyxiation, searing pain as tissue is torn from
his
> >>lacerated back as he moves up and down against rough timber. Then
another
> >>agony begins: a deep, crushing pain deep in the chest as the pericardium
> >>slowly fills with serum and begins to compress the heart.
> >>
> >>It is now almost over. The loss of tissue fluids has reached a critical
> >>level. The compressed heart is struggling to pump heavy, thick, sluggish
> >>blood into the tissues. The tortured lungs are making frantic effort to
gasp
> >>in small gulps of air. He can feel the chill of death creeping through
his
> >>tissues.
> >>
> >>Finally, he allows his body to die.
> >>
> >>All this the Bible records with the simple words,
> >>"and they crucified Him" (Mark 15:24).
> >>
> >>-- C. Truman Davis, M.D., M.S., Arizona Medicine, Vol. 22 No. 3 March
1965
> >>
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