Seraphim, [320] was stripped, bound to the pillar, and received the full number of forty stripes, which proclaimed that He was sentenced to death. What next? When He had received the scarlet robe in mockery He was slapped on His head and asked, “Who was it who struck you?” (Mt. 26:69). He was crowned with thorns, received mock homage, and was spat upon, and heard Himself mentioned in irony, “Behold, the King of the Jews” (Mk. 15:26; Lk. 23:38). When He was once more dressed in His own clothes His