10 ways the early Christians were tortured

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In the beginning, the emperor threatened them with bonds and imprisonment. But a while later, when he began to work the matter in good earnest, he devised innumerable sorts of torments and punishments, such as

1. whippings and scourgings,
2. rackings,
3. horrible scrapings,
4. sword,
5. and fire.
6. A great number were put in boats, which were then sunk; they drowned in the bottom of the sea.
7. Also, hanging them on crosses, binding them to the bodies of dead trees with their heads downward;
8. hanging them by their middles on gallows till they died of hunger;
9. throwing them alive to wild beasts which would devour them, such as lions, bears, leopards, and wild bulls.
10. Pricking and thrusting them with daggers and the talons of beasts till they were almost dead;

(also, pricking and thrusting them with daggers and the talons of beasts till they were almost dead; lifting them up on high with their heads downward. There were other sorts of punishments, most tragic - or rather, tyrannical and pitiful to describe: such as first binding them to trees and their boughs, then pulling and tearing apart their members and joints; mangling them with axes; choking them with smoke by small fires; severing their hands, ears, feet and other joints)