All irrelevant! There are four different types of capital punishment in the Bible for violating the law. All have one thing in common they result in death without mercy. Read Hebrews again, a "sorer punishment" than "death without mercy" Not how much pain is involved.
What is referred to in Heb.10:28-29 is not "capital punishment in the Bible", but capital punishment of an individual under "the law of Moses" and "on the testimony of two or three witnesses". Therefore the reference can be to either death by (1) stoning and or (2) by fire.
Read Hebrews again, a "sorer punishment" than "death without mercy" Not how much pain is involved.
When one punishment is "sorer" than another punishment that means more pain is involved.
The phrase "sorer punishment" refers back to something.
Yes, soreness of punishment refers back to some things:
1. death under "Moses law"
2. by the witness of 2 or 3 witnesses
What made that death "sore". Stoning? Burning by fire?
Christ rejectors are to get a comparable yet worse, i.e. sorer, punishment. Not endless oblivion or tortures.
Wrong! Read the scripture that both you and I posted.
Hebrews 10:28 A man that hath set at nought Moses' law dieth without compassion on the word of two or three witnesses: 29 of how much sorer punishment, think ye, shall he be judged worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
"Death without mercy" was certainly a punishment imposed when someone disobeyed the Law of Moses. The phrase "sorer punishment" refers back to something. There is nothing about "Moses law" or "word of 2 or 3 witnesses" which could be considered "punishment" the only thing is this passage which could be considered "τιμωρία/timoria a penalty: - punishment." is "death without mercy."
So for those who have "trampled the Son of God underfoot, who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant that sanctified them, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace" there is a punishment worse than dying without mercy.
Death is not a punishment or painful. Death is the instant of cessation of life in this world. It involves, to the consciousness of the soul, leaving this life for another life, this world for another world & this realm for another.
The painful "sorer punishment" than capital punishment under "Moses' law" is the point of contrast with those Christ rejectors of whom the writer of Hebrews speaks as deserving of worse punishment.
Methods of capital punishment under Moses law included stoning and burning, etc. These are painful ways to die, hence the reference to "sorer punishment" deserved to Christ rejectors in Heb.10:28. Unlike such means of capital punishment under Moses' law, which were "sore", instant death by a more merciful method would not be "sore".
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT - JewishEncyclopedia.com
Capital Punishment
10:28 A man that hath set at nought Moses' law dieth without compassion on the word of two or three witnesses: 29 of how much sorer punishment, think ye, shall he be judged worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
Stoning to death is not a very sore or longlasting punishment. People suffered far worse deaths via the torture methods of the eternal hell believing Medieval Inquisitionists and the German Nazis under Hitler.
Therefore, if the writer of Hebrews believed the wicked would be punished with something so monstrous as being endlessly annihilated or tormented, he would not have chosen to compare their punishment to something so lame as being stoned to death. Clearly he did not believe Love Omnipotent is an unfeeling terminator machine or sadist who abandons forever the beings He created in His own image & likeness so easily.
Rom 5:18 Consequently, then, as it was through one offense for all mankind for condemnation, thus also it is through one just act for all mankind for life's justifying."
Rom 5:19 For even as, through the disobedience of the one man, the many were constituted sinners, thus also, through the obedience of the One, the many shall be constituted just."
According to the Scriptures, God is Love Omnipotent, not a mythical deception infinitely worse than Hitler, Bin Laden & Satan combined.
Have you been decieved by your Bible translation?
For the Lord will NOT cast off FOR EVER:
Augustine's ignorance & error re Matthew 25:46
Church Fathers & Universalism since Early Church times
If endless punishment were true & victims of infanticide all go to heaven