Severe Persecutions of the Believers About the Year 130

About this time, writes P. J. Twisck, the instruments of the devil could not invent punishments severe enough that they did not consider the Christians worthy of them. For they were watched in their houses as well as outside them; men cried out against them in all public places; they were scourged, stoned, and dragged about; their goods were plundered; they were arrested; red-hot iron plates were applied to their bare bodies; they were placed in a certain instrument made to torture criminals; they were put into the deepest and darkest places of the prisons, where they were killed; indeed, they were afflicted with excruciating torments. P. J. Twisck, Chron., 2nd book, for the year 130, page 39, column 2, and page 40, column 1, from Jan Crespin in den staet der Kerken. [n145-1]