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In truth, he took upon himself our illnesses and assumed our pains; and we consider him afflicted, wounded of God, and oppressed.
- But he was wounded because of our transgressions.
- And crushed by our iniquities; the punishment that brings us peace was upon him.
- And by his wounds we were healed.
I believe that Christ’s suffering and demonstration of the kind of physiological distress suffered by his human body manifest in the Garden of Gethsemane, where it is described that he sweated blood, and there is a well-documented medical condition in which patients under enormous emotional and physiological stress can, in fact, sweat blood due to the bursting of small vessels under the glands , expelling blood.
The whip involved the use of a short whip, usually with pieces of metal, sometimes bones, sometimes pieces of porcelain wrapped in these leather strips, which were normally used to tear the victim’s back, shoulders and legs, and the first lashes tore into a specific part of the body, cutting the skin, oil , but eventually, once the outer layers opened, they would begin to reach the muscles and tendons and, of course, along the way, cut off all the blood vessels that supply these tissues and lose blood all the time.
The plant described, in fact, had a very long spine. Not the little thorns we’d get from a rose bush. They were thorns, usually an inch and a half or two inches long. The scalp is one of the parts of our body with the highest number of blood vessels. There’s a lot of blood up there. Then, push these thorns into Bonni’s plaque and they would have pierced the entire scalp causing a great loss of blood. I’ve seen people bleed to death from scalp injuries. Therefore, it is not a small injury to have dozens of these things stuck in the scalp, so it would have caused more blood loss.
Normally, when the victim had to wear the cross, in literature it was rather described by saying, in Roman literature, that she used the horizontal bar, and the horizontal bar alone was estimated at 50 pounds. And obviously, if your arm is stuck here, grabbed by the crossbar and you fall, you need help getting up. You can’t get up alone because there’s no way possible without your arms to get up, so He would have needed help getting up. If he falls, he’s very likely to hit his chest. Then you could count on the possibility of a heart injury.
Anatomically, the wrist can be considered part of the hand and, therefore, that the nails were placed between the radius and the ulna, in this position that corresponds to the definition of being in the hand and is in a position where the nail does not break, because it must have a solid fixation point. Another interesting point about nail placement is that the average nerve passes exactly through this special part of the wrist, so the destruction or shock of the nerve would have caused enormous pain. Every time you try to breathe, you’re in agony, pushing your feet in pain, which, of course, hurts, and then hung your arms in pain, and so you go from unbearable pain to other unbearable pain. you breathe.
Therefore, even if you survived the current crucifixion, you should survive what I think is a fatal spear wound. This defines whether he is alive or not. What is described is a large amount of water and blood, and this would involve both a pleural infusion and an infusion of pericardium, and the blood should come from a pulmonary artery, pulmonary vein, aorta, a vein in the cave, or the heart itself. None of these injuries could withstand after a few minutes, unless they were treated immediately by a trauma surgeon, like me, with all the next-generation equipment we have.
Christ, as the Son of God, could have survived anything, chose to manifest himself as a human being at this time in history, and let himself die. And as a human, at the time, I couldn’t have survived this special series of traumas. That’s not possible. Christ is Dieu. Il he could have survived all that had been thrown at him and chose to be Christ, man, at that time in history, to die for sinners. And, by self-limitation to remain human, he died. He didn’t survive the event.
This moves me deeply, how can I realize that the price you paid was something I didn’t do?I never wanted to do it, probably for anyone. It’s very difficult for me to sing songs on the cross, even in adoration, because I really understand why you paid, the price you paid.