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Scourged meaning
simple past and past participle of scourge
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The illustration also includes Emmitt Till, Malcolm X and Gordon, also known as “Whipped Peter”, a runaway slave featured in “The Scourged Back” photograph.
We recently remembered Good Friday as the day our Lord was scourged, tortured, humiliated, and was crucified for those who would believe.
He said in the Week of Passion, “Jesus, though sinless, was scourged by the Roman soldiers, was forced to carry His Cross through the streets of Jerusalem along what is known as the way of sorrows.
Before he could be buried in the cathedral, the bishop had his corpse scourged in posthumous penance.
The Prefect Rusticus read the sentence: Those who do not wish to sacrifice to the gods and to obey the emperor will be scourged and beheaded according to the laws.