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But he, welcoming death with honor rather than life with defilement, advanced of his own accord to the instrument of torture, but first spat out the flesh,
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Verse 19. Hateful. Greek “criminal life, and went first of his own accord to be bastinaded;” τυμπανιζεσθαι. Bible.—Saint Paul probably alluded to this torment, Hebrews 11:35. It was used among the Jews. Calmet. Diss.
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