Though we read in our translation, that _Pharaoh_ hanged the chief Baker, yet learned expositors understand hereby some kind of crucifixion, according to the mode of _Egypt_, whereby he exemplarily hanged out till the fowls of the air fed on his head or face, the first part of their prey being the eyes. And perhaps according to the signal draught hereof in a very old manuscript of _Genesis_, now kept in the Emperors Library at _Vienna_; and accordingly set down by the learned _Petrus Zamberius_, in the second Tome of the description of that Library. When the _Gibeonites_ hanged the bodies of those of the house of _Saul_, thereby was intended some kind of crucifying, according unto good expositors, and the vulgar translation: _crucifixerunt eos in monte coram domino_; many both in Scripture and humane writers might be said to be crucified, though they did not perish immediately by crucifixion: But however otherwise destroyed, their bodies might be afterward appended or fastned unto some elevated engine, as exemplary objects unto the eyes of the people: So sometimes we read of the crucifixion of only some part, as of the Heads of _Julianus_ and _Albinus_, though their bodies were cast away. That legal Text [SN: Deut. 21.] which seems to countenance the common way of hanging, if a man hath committed a sin worthy of Death, and they hang him on a Tree; is not so received by Christian and Jewish expositors. And as a good Annotator of ours [SN: Ainsworth.] delivereth, out of _Maimonides_: The _Hebrews_ understand not this of putting him to death by hanging, but of hanging of a Man after he was stoned to death; and the manner is thus described. After he is stoned to death, they fasten a piece of timber in the Earth, and out of it there commeth a piece of wood, and then they tye both his hands one to another, and hang him unto the setting of the Sun. Beside, the original word _Hakany_ determineth not the doubt. For that by _Lexicographers_ or _Dictionarie_ interpreters, is rendred suspension and crucifixion; there being no _Hebrew_ word peculiarly and fully expressing the proper word of crucifixion, as it was used by the _Romans_; nor easie to prove it the custom of the _Jewish_ Nation to nail them by distinct parts unto a Cross, after the manner of our SAVIOUR crucified: wherein it was a special favour indulged unto _Joseph_ to take down the Body.