The other six passages of the New Testament in which whipping is mentioned, are, first, in St. John’s (c. ii. v. 15.) _And when He had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them out of the Temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers of money, and overthrew the tables._ The second chapter is in the fifth chapter of the Acts (v. 40.) _And when they had called the Apostles and beaten them with scourges, they commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus; and let them go._ The third place in which scourgings are mentioned, is the sixth chapter of the second Epistle to the Corinthians (v. 15.) St. Paul in that Chapter places _Stripes_ among the different methods of persecution which were used against the ministers of the Gospel, and he moreover relates the sufferings to which he himself had been exposed. _Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one_: and in the next verse he says, _Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck; a night and a day I have been in the deep_. Fifthly, in his Epistle to the Hebrews (xi. 36.) the same Apostle says, speaking in general terms, _And others had trials of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonments_. Now, from all these passages no authority whatever can be derived to justify the practice of voluntary flagellation. All the persecuted persons above-mentioned suffered those beatings with rods, and those scourgings, much against their will.