十字架
2018/09/21
《The Cross Forbidden for Romans 對羅馬公民，嚴令禁止受十字架刑罰》
※The shame associated with crucifixion was so intense that it was expressly forbidden that a Roman citizen be executed in that manner.
被釘十字架產生的恥辱是如此尖銳，所以，明確禁止以這種方式處決羅馬公民。
Cicero wrote:
“Even if we are threatened with death, we may die free men. But the executioner, the veiling of the head, and the very word cross should be far removed not only from the person of a Roman citizen but from his thoughts, his eyes, and his ears. For it is not only the actual occurrence of these things or the endurance of them, but the liability to them, the expectation, nay the mere mention of them, that is unworthy of a Roman citizen and a free man” (Defence of Rabirius, 5,16).
Cicero 寫到：我們自由人，可能也遭遇死亡威脅而死。但對羅馬市民、自由人，他們的眼目、耳朵甚至腦筋裡，都盡量避免受到恥辱的十字架刑罰的污染，所以，對羅馬受刑人，絕對不提戴著頭罩的死刑執行者和十字架的字眼。
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