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The Cross
The instrument of execution made into the world's deepest mercy — central to Christianity, paralleled in every tradition's image of love that bears unjust pain.
Christianity
"...If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me."
"And he bearing his cross went forth into a place called the place of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha:"
"For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God."
"But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ..."
"...he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross."
Judaism
"But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities..."