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Now there was placed a vessel full of vinegar: they then filling a spunge with the vinegar, and putting it on a stick of hyssop, carried it to his mouth. When therefore Jesus had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and inclining his head, he surrendered up his spirit. Then came the soldiers, and brake the legs of the first, and of the other who was crucified with him.
Saint Peter was the first Pope, and he was crucified with his head down, and since that time there have been Popes upon the throne of Rome. Then he began telling me about himself. 'I was twice a married man, he said. 'My first wife died at her second child, and then I reared it up till it was as tall as myself a girl it was and she went off and got married and left me.
His bows and arrows, with a pair of dags or pistols, hung on a rack against the wall at the foot of his bed, and a little brass cross engraved with a figure of the Crucified hung over it. It was such a chamber as any son of a house might have, who was a gentleman and not luxurious.
Moreover, the life of society depends upon the general glow of the party, rather than the prominence of an individual, so that a brilliant talker will seek to bring out "the coincidence which strengthens conviction, or the dissent which sharpens sagacity, rather than individual experiences, which ever seem to be egotistical. In agreeable society all egotism is to be crushed and crucified.
The women in the cart kept up a continual lamenting, and Muckle John, who walked between two dragoons with his hands tied to the saddle of each, so that he looked like a crucified malefactor, polluted the air with hideous profanities. He cursed everything in nature and beyond it, and no amount of clouts on the head would stem the torrent.
Some say he is the same Maternus who was crucified near Antioch at about the time when you were there; some say he isn't. He is reported to visit Rome in various disguises, and to be able to conduct himself so well that he can pass for a patrician. Some say he has a large band; some say, hardly any followers. Some say it was he who robbed the emperor's own mail a month ago. Pertinax looked bored.
His prolonged agony of thirst and pain on the cross at last breaks his spirit, and he dies with a cry of "My God: why hast Thou forsaken me?" Meanwhile he has been definitely rejected by the people as well as by the priests. But they insist on his releasing a prisoner named Barabbas instead, and on having Jesus crucified.
I have given him up to them to be crucified, although their accusations appeared to be groundless. I have done so for fear of their alleging to the Emperor that I encourage insurrections, and cause dissatisfaction among the Jews by denying them the rights of justice.
Secondly, to forbid the excessive cost of clothing, whereby so much wealth is wasted, and yet only the world and the flesh are served; it is fearful to think that such abuse is to be found among the people who have been pledged, baptised and consecrated to Christ, the Crucified, and who should bear the Cross after Him and prepare for the life to come by dying daily.
"Was crucified, dead and buried; he descended into hell; the third day he rose again from the dead." "He suffered and was buried, and the third day he rose again according to the scriptures, and sitteth on the right hand of the Father." The "descent into hell" of the Apostles' Creed of course meant the passing to the place of disembodied souls the lower Astral Plane.
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