Death is horrible 2. Imagine Adam and Eve's horror at witnessing the first act of bloodshed and death. Imagine the Jewish peoples' horror when they first witnessed the sacrificial system God wanted them to follow. The cross is the most horrible of all. The limbs of the victim were generally three or four feet from the earth.
Instances are on record of persons surviving for nine days.
Fracture of the legs was resorted to by the Jews to hasten death. In most cases the body was suffered to rot on the cross by the action of the sun and rain or to be devoured by birds and beasts. It would require that you DIE and go to hell forever and ever to pay for your own sins. SONG - . The wonders of His glorious love, and my own worthlessness.