Interestingly, the book History of the Cross quotes one late 17th-century writer who asked: "Can it be pleasing to the blessed Jesus to behold His disciples glorying in the image of that instrument of capital punishment on which He [supposedly] patiently and innocently suffered, despising the shame?"
Se se kgatlhang ke gore, buka ya History of the Cross e nopola mokwadi mongwe yo o neng a tshela kwa bofelong jwa lekgolo la bo17 la dingwaga yo o neng a botsa jaana: "A Jesu o ne a ka itumelela go bona barutwa ba gagwe ba tlotla kgotsa ba obamela selo [se go tweng] o ne a bolaelwa mo go sone, a boga ka bopelotelele a se na molato, a nyatsa ditlhong?"