Vv. 3-10. The despair of Fudas.— Peculiar to Matthew ; interesting to the evangelist as a testimony even from the
s—Io, 323 τοῖς 1 πρεσβυτέροις, 4. λέγων, ““Hpaptov παραδοὺς αἷμα * aQdov.” a here and οἱ δὲ εἶπον, “Ti πρὸς ἡμᾶς; od der.” 5. Kat ῥίψας τὰ ἀργύρια μή ἐν τῷ ναῷ, ἀνεχώρησε΄ καὶ ἀπελθὼν " ἀπήγξατο. 6. Οἱ δὲ ἀρχιερεῖς b here only λαβόντες τὰ ἀργύρια εἶπον, “Odx ἔξεστι βαλεῖν αὐτὰ eis τὸν (Tobit ii, *xopBavay, ἐπεὶ Ἱτιμὴ αἵματός ἐστι. 7. Συμβούλιον δὲ λαβόντες,ς re ony.
here, ver. g. Acts
ἠγόρασαν ἐξ αὐτῶν τὸν ἀγρὸν τοῦ *kepapéws, εἰς ΄ταφὴν τοῖς ξένοις. 3 ς su ra Ε] A lv. αν Ἐ
8. διὸ ἐκλήθη ὁ ἀγρὸς ἐκεῖνος ἀγρὸς αἵματος, ἕως τῆς σήμερον. Cor. vi ο > ς a A a.
ϱ. τότε ἐπληρώθη τὸ ῥηθὲν διὰ Ιερεμίου τοῦ προφήτου, λέγοντος, α Rom. iz.
“Kai ἔλαβον τὰ τριάκοντα ἀργύρια, τὴν τιμὴν τοῦ τετιµημένου, ὃν ς here Galy.
ἐτιμήσαντο ἀπὸ υἱῶν Ισραήλ” 10. καὶ ἔδωκαν αὐτὰ εἰς τὸν ἀγρὸν
τοῦ κεραµέως, καθὰ συνέταξέ pot Κύριος.
1 SSBCL 33 omit τοις.
? o:y in the most important uncials,
3 evs τον ναον in NBL 33, 69 al. (Tisch., W.H., Ws.).
false disciple to the innocence of Jesus, and the wickedness of His enemies, and as a curious instance of prophecy ful- filled.—Ver. 3. τότε connects the re- pentance of Judas with the leading of Jesus away to Pilate which he regarded as sealing his fate. What happened was but the natural result of the apprehension which he himself had brought about, and he doubtless had the natural issue in view at the moment of apprehension. But reaction had set in, partly as a matter of course in a ‘‘two-souled”’ man, partly at sight of the grim reality: his Master led to death by his assistance (ὅτι κατεκρίθη).--μεταμεληθεὶς, regret- ting, rueing what he had done: wishing it were undone.—améorpee (ἔστρεψε W.H. as in Is. xxxviii. 8), returned the thirty pieces of silver, a sign in such a nature that the repentance as far as it went was very real.—Ver. 4. ἥμαρτον, 1 sinned, L did wrong.—apaSots a. a. ex- plainshow. Thesinningand the betraying are one, therefore the participle does not point to an act antecedent to that of the main verb.—alpa ἀθῶον, innocent blood, for the blood of an innocent person, So in Deut. xxvii. 25. Palairet cites ex- amples to prove that Greek writers used αἷμα as = GvOpwros.—ti πρὸς ἡμᾶς: that is not our concern.—od ὄψει, look thou to that = ‘‘tu videris,” a Latinism. The sentiment itself a Cainism. “ Ad modum Caini loquuntur vera progenies Caini”’ (Grotius).—Ver. 5. εἰς τὸν ναόν: not in that part of the temple where the Sanhedrim met (Grotius), or in the temple at large, in a place accessible to laymen (Fritzsche, Bleek), or near the temple (Kypke), but in the holy place
itself (Meyer, Weiss, Schanz, Carr, Morison); the act of a desperate man determined they should get the money, and perhaps hoping it might be a kind of atonement for his δἱη.--ἀπήγξατο, strangled himself; usually reconciled with Acts i. 18 by the supposition that the rope broke. The suggestion of Grotius that the verb points to death from grief (“non laqueo sed moestitia ’’) has met with little favour.—Ver.6. κορβανᾶν, the treasury, referred to by this name by Joseph. (B. J. il. 9, 4).--τυμὴ αἵματός ἐστι: exclusion of blood money from the treasury, an extension of the law against the wages of harlotry (Deut. xxiii. 18).— Ver. 7. τὸν ἀγρὸν τ. κεραµέως, the field ofthe potter. The smallness of the price has suggested to some (Grotius, ¢.g.) that it was a field for potter’s clay got cheap because worked out. But in that case it would naturally be called the field of the potters.—évors most take as referring to Jews from other lands dying at Jerusalem at passover time.—Ver.8. ἀγρὸς αἵματος = aceldama, Acts i. 18, name otherwise explained there.—ws τῆς σήμερον: phrase frequent in Ο. T. history; sign of late date of Gospel, thinks De Wette.