Judas Iscariot
historical figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 6 anchored passages
Judas · a betrayer · his own man · the betrayer of Christ
in the texts
Adversus Marcionem
The disciple who betrayed Christ, enrolled by Christ himself, whose crime and repentance are discussed as fulfilling prophecy.
"Woe," he says, "to him through whom the Son of man is betrayed.
" For both the quantity and the issue of the price, afterward, Judas repenting, recalled and given for the purchase of the potter's field — as is contained in the gospel of Matthew — Jeremiah foresang:
De Anima
Disciple who, though among the elect, became a traitor when the devil entered him.
Judas too, for some while reckoned among the elect, even to the office of the purse, though already a thief, was nonetheless not yet a traitor, until afterwards the devil entered into him.
De Praescriptionibus Hereticorum
Judas, the apostle who betrayed Christ.
the very betrayer of Christ was of the apostles.
Did anything lie hid from John, most beloved of the Lord, reclining on his bosom, to whom alone the Lord pointed out Judas the betrayer beforehand, whom he commended in his own place as a son to Mary?
Straightway, therefore, the apostles — whom this appellation interprets as "the sent" — having by lot taken a twelfth, Matthias, into the place of Judas, on the authority of the prophecy which is in the psalm of David, and having received the promised power of the Holy Spirit for miracles and for utterance, first throughout Judaea, having attested their faith in Jesus Christ and founded Churches, …