Son of Man. A consolatory consideration. — oval 3s, but woe !) The Divine foreknowledge of the traitor's sin does not diminish its heinousness. — IXE/KW, to that man) ; concerning which very man also it has been written. — Kapaoiborai, is betrayed} By this word something further is added to vvdyti, goeth. — £/' oux lyewjjtJjj, if lie had not been born) sc. if he either had not been conceived, or had died before his birth ; see Job iii. 2, 10, 11. This phrase does not necessarily imply the interminable eternity of perdition : for it is a proverbial expression ; cf. Lukexxiii. 29 ; Ecclus. xxiii. 19 (Gr. ver. 14). * Judas obtains a situation of exclusively pre-eminent misery amongst the souls of the damned. For so long a time he accompanied our Lord, not without sharing the sorrows connected therewith ; a little before the joyful Pentecost he died. — 6 avSpuiro? exeTvos, " THAT" man) The words, " that man" might seem a predicate. THAT is the de signation of one who is considered already far off.
25.2 ' Pa/3/3/, Master) It is not recorded in Scripture that Judas ever called Jesus, Lord. — <ri/ g?raj, thou hast said) A formula of replying affirmatively, first to those who affirm, thence also to those who enquire, when the interrogation is taken away (as though it \vere a mode) and the sentence is left categorical.3 The question is asked, " JUDAS is the traitor?" the interroga tion is taken away, and the categorical reply remains : " Judas is the traitor" A similar form of expression is found in Ex. x. 29, mm p, So it is as thou hast said;* cf. 1 Kings xx. 40, and Gnomon on ver. 64.
26. 'Eff&iovruv ds UVTUV, And as they were eating) As in ver. 21.
1 In the LXX. and Eng. Vers. it stands as the 14th, in the Vulgate as the 19th verse.— (I. B.)
A degree of misery is here awarded to him greater than that which is set forth in ch. xviii. 6. — V. g.
2 P.VITI sya tiff,!, Is it I? [Surely it is not I ?] Hypocrites counterfeit by imitation that which the sincere-hearted speak under the influence of genuine love. — V. g.
5 i.e. a simple and absolute affirmation. — (I. B.)
Categorical, naked, and absolute, as opposed to a sentence in which there is a " modus," i.e. some accompanying expression of feeling, thanksgiving, & prayer, or such like. See Append, on Sermo Modalis. — ED.
* S. V. Elo'/ix.*;, thou hast said. — E. V. Thou hast spoken well. — (I. B.)