Judas
historical figure · 8 works · 13 mentions · 13 anchored passages
Judas the betrayer · Judas Iscariot · Judas the traitor
in the texts
Adversus Marcionem
The disciple who betrayed Christ, invoked as an example in Tertullian's argument about divine foreknowledge.
He would not have accepted Judas the traitor, if he had foreknown.
first clothed in filthy garments, that is, in the indignity of passible and mortal flesh, when the devil also opposed him, the author, namely, of Judas the betrayer — not to say also the tempter after baptism — and then, stripped of his former filth, adorned with the long robe and the mitre and the clean turban, that is, with the glory and honour of the second coming.
But behold, he is shown defended by the Creator — and "the worst men were given for his burial," namely those who had asserted that it was stolen away, "and the rich for his death," namely those who had both bought the betrayal from Judas and the false testimony of the stolen corpse from the soldiers.
Letters
Betrayer of Christ, cited as preferring death to living in shame, unlike current heretics.
For Judas, who preferred death by hanging to living with shame, showed himself, perhaps, a more choiceworthy man than those who now have lost all shame before every condemnation of men, and on that account are shamelessly disposed toward what is base.
And the falling away of Judas from the better to the worse was enough, for the security of one who lives the life that is according to God;
nor again imitate Judas, betraying for gain a second time him who was once crucified for us.
An Essay on Crimes and Punishments
Biblical figure whose suicide after betraying Jesus Christ is cited by canon law as a greater sin than the betrayal itself.
The cannon law assures us, that Judas committed a greater crime in hanging himself, than in betraying Jesus Christ.
Stromata
The apostle who fell, cited to show election does not guarantee perseverance.
and being already luminous, and shining as the sun by reason of his good-doing, he hastens, through just knowledge, by love of God, to the holy abode, like the apostles — who became apostles not because they were elect by any peculiar excellence of nature (since Judas too was chosen with them), but because they were such as could become apostles, being chosen by him who foresees even the ends.
Adversus Judaeos
The disciple who betrayed Christ, said to be instigated by the devil.
First he is clothed in filthy garments — that is, in the indignity of passible and mortal flesh, when the devil too opposed him, namely the author of Judas the betrayer, who had even tempted him after his baptism.
Adversus Praxean
Disciple who betrays the Son of God.
" But Praxeas would have the Father himself to have gone forth from himself, and to have departed to himself — so that the devil put into the heart of Judas not the betrayal of the Son, but of the Father himself.
De Corona
Biblical disciple who betrayed Christ for silver, invoked as an analogy for accepting the laurel-associated donative.
Plainly not a gratuitous idolatry, selling Christ for some gold pieces, as Judas for silver!
De Spectaculis
The betrayer of Christ, referenced in the imagined final taunt against Christ's mockers.
this is he whom you bought from Judas;