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The HISTORY OF THE FLAGELLANTS: otherwise of RELIGIOUS FLAGELLATIONS among different Nations, and especially among Christians
Being a Paraphrase and Commentary on the HISTORIA FLAGELLANTIUM of the Abbe Boileau, Doctor of the Sorbonne, Canon of the Holy Chapel, &C.
By one who is not Doctor of the Sorbonne
Honi foit qui mal y pense.
Otherwise of RELIGIOUS FLAGELLATIONS among different nations and especially among Christians
LONDON Printed for G. Robinson No. 25 Pater-nofter Row 2nd Edition M DCC LXXXIII
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Chap. II The Flagellants 27
No persons, under the ancient Law, inflicted on themselves, with their own hands, voluntary flagellations, or received them from the hands of other persons.
Flagellation, there is no doubt, is a method of coercive punishment very anciently used among Men. We find it mentioned in the Old Testament, in the fifth chapter of exodus: it is said in that chapter, that the Ministers of Pharaoh, who required from the Israelites a certain number of bricks every day, having found them to have failed in supplying the usual number, ordered then to be flogged; and that the latter complained of this harsh usage.
V. 14 “And the officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaoh’s Task masters had set over them, were beaten….”
No persons, under the ancient Law, inflicted on themselves, with their own hands, voluntary flagellations, or received them from the hands of other persons.
Flagellation, there is no doubt, is a method of coercive punishment very anciently used among Men. We find it mentioned in the Old Testament, in the fifth chapter of exodus: it is said in that chapter, that the Ministers of Pharaoh, who required from the Israelites a certain number of bricks every day, having found them to have failed in supplying the usual number, ordered then to be flogged; and that the latter complained of this harsh usage.
V. 14 “And the officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaoh’s Task masters had set over them, were beaten….”
