06-01-2008, 04:31 AM
"The very form of the cross, too, has five extremities two in length, two in breadth, and one in the middle, on which the person rests who is fixed by the nails." Irenaeus, Against Heresies: Book II, Chapter 24:4
"For the one beam is placed upright, from which the highest extremity is raised up into a horn, when the other beam is fitted on to it, and the ends appear on both sides as horns joined on to the one horn. And the part which is fixed in the centre, on which are suspended those who are crucified..." Justin Martyr, Dialoge with Trypho Chapter 91
"For the one beam is placed upright, from which the highest extremity is raised up into a horn, when the other beam is fitted on to it, and the ends appear on both sides as horns joined on to the one horn. And the part which is fixed in the centre, on which are suspended those who are crucified..." Justin Martyr, Dialoge with Trypho Chapter 91