SCOURGING

(Corporal punishment by stripes)

Prescribed in the Mosaic law for committing the sin of fornication

Le 19:20; De 22:18

Prescribed for other offenses

De 25:2

40 Stripes was the maximum number

De 25:3

Fatal

Job 9:23

Of servants could be avenged

Ex 21:20

Foretold by Jesus as a persecution of future Christians

Mt 10:17

Of children

See CHILDREN, CORRECTION OF PUNISHMEMT

INSTANCES OF

Of Jesus

Mt 20:19; 27:26; Mr 15:15; Joh 19:1

Of Paul and Silas

Ac 16:23

Of Paul

Ac 21:32; 22:24; 2Co 11:24,25

Of Sosthenes

Ac 18:17

FIGURATIVE

Of the oppressions of rulers

1Ki 12:11

Of the evil tongue

Job 5:21

See ASSAULT AND BATTERY