Soul piercing agony. Flesh withering sorrow of heart. Gut wrenching desertion of close friends. Horribly brutal physical torture. Foes spitting in your face. Mocking and rueing of sinful mortals. Scorn measured by the disrespectful tearing of clumps of hair from your once glorious beard. Loneliness. False accusations. Charge of “blasphemer” though a lie never passed through your lips. A very public and indignant humiliation of being labeled a criminal. Abandonment of your belov...
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