8. Let his days be few. Who would desire a persecuting tyrant to live long? As well might we wish length of days to a mad dog. And let another take his office. Perhaps a better man may come; at any rate it is time a change were tried. So used were the Jews to look upon these verses and the doom of traitors of cruel and deceitful mind, that Peter saw at once in the speedy death of Judas a fulfillment of this sentence, and a reason for the appointment of a successor who should take his place of oversight. A bad man does not make an office bad: another may use with benefit that which he perverted to ill uses.
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