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Punishments
Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary
There were many kinds of these among the Hebrews, according to the crimes committed—scourging, stoning, imprisonment, hanging, and many others. But it is observable that in all cases, excepting high crimes against God, tenderness was mingled with their punishments. So much of the mercy of the gospel was even then shadowed out in Christ Jesus!
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Hawker, Robert D.D. Entry for 'Punishments'. Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance and Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/pmd/p/punishments.html. London. 1828.