SAWING ASUNDER

so'-ing a-sun'-der.

See PUNISHMENTS.

Watching for the King
... The cruel punishment of sawing asunder, which, tradition says, was suffered
by Isaiah and was not unfamiliar in old times, is his. ...
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Treatise on the Priesthood. Book iv.
... priest, but others seek its meaning rather in the "dividing asunder" of sacrificial
victims (Hebrews 4:12), or in the punishment of "sawing asunder" (Daniel 3 ...
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Religious and Social State.
... and sweet washing balls." The sawing' or cutting asunder' of v.35 was a Babylonian
punishment, as is shewn in ii.5 and iii.29 of the canonical book. ...
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The Strait Gate;
... They, for their part, have devised all manner of cruel torments to make us submit,
as slaying with the sword, stoning, sawing asunder, flames, wild beasts ...
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The Ascension of Isaiah.
... they were put to the servile work of sawing timber. It is true also that, according
to the Greek version of Amos, the Damascenes sawed asunder the Gileadite ...
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Acts of Sharbil, who was a Priest of Idols, and was Converted to ...
... tightened it upon him until the bones of his joints creaked with the pressure; then
they put upon him a saw of iron, and began sawing him asunder; and, when he ...
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The Cross the victory and Defeat of Darkness
... it is nearest the breaking point of utter failure, like a man sawing off the ... Him
down and talk Him out of existence, or to 'break His bands asunder and cast ...
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