Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Word of the Day - 1/14/2009

Scourge

A scourge is a whip or lash, especially for the infliction of punishment or torture.

A scourge is te only weapon Jesus is recorded to have held in Scripture. He used it in John's account of the cleansing of the temple. Though he constructed the scourge, there is no record of him using it on a person.

And He made a scourge of cords, and drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and the oxen; and He poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables; (John 2:15, NASB)

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