SCRIPTURE COMMENTARY #490
"But yet behold: the hand of him that betrayeth me is with me on the table. And the Son of man indeed goeth, according to that which is determined: but yet, woe to that man by whom he shall be betrayed." (Luke 22:21-22)
THE DEVIL, AND THE AVARICE OF JUDAS: Satan hated Jesus, the Most Holy One, and had been trying to outwit God ever since the creation of man. The covetousness of Judas gave him the apparent means of attaining his end. The bad apostle, by resisting grace and indulging his ruling passion, gave the devil an increasing influence over him; till at last, blinded by avarice, and disappointed in his hopes of an earthly messiah, he listened to the suggestions of the spirit of evil, and decided to sell his Lord and Master for a paltry sum. Covetousness is a capital sin. "There is," says the Son of Sirach, "no more wicked thing than to love money, for such an one setteth even his own soul to sale" (Ecclus. 10:10). Judas set even his God and Savior to sale! See how sin grows! Our Blessed Lord, who knew the wicked purpose of Judas' heart, tried to win him back from the road to hell. He washed the feet of him, the most unworthy of men; but in spite of his Master's love and humility, the heart of Judas remained untouched, and he persisted in his fiendish purpose of delivering up his Lord into the hands of His bitterest enemies! Oh, what wickedness and hardness of heart!
THE DEVIL, AND THE AVARICE OF JUDAS: Satan hated Jesus, the Most Holy One, and had been trying to outwit God ever since the creation of man. The covetousness of Judas gave him the apparent means of attaining his end. The bad apostle, by resisting grace and indulging his ruling passion, gave the devil an increasing influence over him; till at last, blinded by avarice, and disappointed in his hopes of an earthly messiah, he listened to the suggestions of the spirit of evil, and decided to sell his Lord and Master for a paltry sum. Covetousness is a capital sin. "There is," says the Son of Sirach, "no more wicked thing than to love money, for such an one setteth even his own soul to sale" (Ecclus. 10:10). Judas set even his God and Savior to sale! See how sin grows! Our Blessed Lord, who knew the wicked purpose of Judas' heart, tried to win him back from the road to hell. He washed the feet of him, the most unworthy of men; but in spite of his Master's love and humility, the heart of Judas remained untouched, and he persisted in his fiendish purpose of delivering up his Lord into the hands of His bitterest enemies! Oh, what wickedness and hardness of heart!
[From 'A Practical Commentary on Holy Scripture' by Bishop Knecht, D.D.]
(1899 Douay-Rheims Bible)
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