13. But it was thou. His poetic fury is on him;
he sees the traitor as though he stood before him in flesh and blood. He points
his finger at him; he challenges him to his face. But thou. Judas,
betrayest thou the Son of Man? A man mine equal. Treated by me as one of
my own rank, never looked upon as an inferior, but as a trusted friend. My guide, a counselor so sage that I trusted your advice and found it prudent
to do so. And mine acquaintance, with whom I was on most intimate terms.
Judas stood very much in this relation to our Lord; he was treated as an equal,
trusted as treasurer, and in that capacity often consulted with. He knew the
place where the Master was wont to spend his solitude; in fact, he knew all the
Master’s movements, and yet he betrayed him to his remorseless adversaries. How
justly might the Lord have pointed at him and said, But thou; but his
gentler spirit warned the son of perdition in the mildest manner, and had not
Iscariot been tenfold a child of hell he would have relinquished his detestable
purpose.
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