. The life of our Saviour Jesus Christ : three hundred and sixty-five compositions from the four Gospels. ived, and certainty tJie most probable,explanation is that the name of the bet raver ivas madetip of the tivo Hebrew words : ish and carioth orKerioth. Now Kerioth is a small town belonging tothe tribe of fudah, so that the traitor was the only oneof the Apostles of Judcean extraction, the others beingall from Galilee, and related more or less nearly toone family. The surname of fudas has, indeed, beenvariously interpreted b v tJie commentators on the Bible,and the following are some of th
. The life of our Saviour Jesus Christ : three hundred and sixty-five compositions from the four Gospels. ived, and certainty tJie most probable,explanation is that the name of the bet raver ivas madetip of the tivo Hebrew words : ish and carioth orKerioth. Now Kerioth is a small town belonging tothe tribe of fudah, so that the traitor was the only oneof the Apostles of Judcean extraction, the others beingall from Galilee, and related more or less nearly toone family. The surname of fudas has, indeed, beenvariously interpreted b v tJie commentators on the Bible,and the following are some of the meanings suggested :gloomy presentiment, the usurer, the liar, the traitor,and the leathern apron, the last in allusion to fudashaving carried the bag of money. Saint ferometranslates it with the sentence : « this was his rewardyy,and it might also mean « the man who zoas hanged ».The tra ito r and th ose ivh o were w it h h im, left fer usa lembv the same gate as fesus Himself had done, that ofOphel; then, going down the rapid descent leading to theb ro o k Ke-dron ,theycross -ed thebridgespan-. Judas. ning; it and voent on to the Garden of Gethse-mane, fudas voas accompanied by numerousscribes and Pharisees, and he now again ex-horted them to take every possible precautionto prevent the escape of fesus. If He attemptedto slip awav unperceived, as had happenedbefore on the brow of the hill above Nazareth,or still more recently in the Temple, they mustbe prepared to stone Him at once! Then, how-ever, the Master had said : (.Mine hour is not yetcome », vohereas now tlie hour had come andJndas perhaps secretly wished, though he ap-peared to fear, the frustration of the plot hisavarice had led him to eiip;as^e in, but lohichcould yield him no further advantage now. Ju-das was, hoivever, to achieve complete success, and it may be that the ease with which hiscrime was accomplislied was not the least count in his subsequent despair.
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