That it furnished old Simonides his start is a common belief.
The procurator is of that opinion--or he has been--for twice in five years he has caught the merchant, and put him to torture." Judah griped the rope he was holding with crushing force.
"It is said," the narrator continued, "that there is not a sound bone in the man's body.

The last time I saw him he sat in a chair, a shapeless cripple, propped against cushions." "So tortured!" exclaimed several listeners in a breath.
"Disease could not have produced such a deformity.

Still the suffering made no impression upon him.

All he had was his lawfully, and he was making lawful use of it--that was the most they wrung from him.

Now, however, he is past persecution.