The Cross—the Expression of Man’s Unbelief
By Horatius Bonar, 1867
But they kept shouting, “Crucify him! Crucify him!” Luke 23:21
Crucifixion was the death of the outcast only, the Gentile outcast. Stoning was the Jewish death, crucifying the Gentile death, or rather the Roman death; the death devised and inflicted by the fourth great beast of Daniel, when exercising his power in trampling down the nation of God with his iron feet.