The king and his courtiers joined in the processions in the garb of penitents, and scourged themselves with ostentation.
He was scourged and only escaped with his life at the intercession of Onias the high priest, who had pleaded with him vainly that the treasure included the deposits of widows and orphans and also some belonging to Hyrcanus, " a man in very high position."
Jewesses were forced to eat pork and the elders were scourged in the theatre.
Seven hours a day he spent on his knees in prayer and three times a day he scourged his emaciated body.
In 662 he was again brought to Constantinople and was condemned by a synod to be scourged, to have his tongue cut out by the root, and to have his right hand chopped off.
