SCRIPTURE COMMENTARY #521
And while he was yet speaking, cometh Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve: and with him a great multitude with swords and staves, from the chief priests and the scribes and the ancients. And he that betrayed him had given them a sign, saying: "Whomsoever I shall kiss, that is he. Lay hold on him: and lead him away carefully." And when he was come, immediately going up to him he saith: "Hail, Rabbi! And he kissed him." (Mark 14:43-45)
THE MALICE, INGRATITUDE AND DEPRAVITY OF JUDAS: Our Blessed Lord had loaded this man with benefits and graces. He had chosen him to be an apostle; He had let him witness His miracles and the holiness of His life; He had imparted to him His divine doctrine; He had borne with him patiently and warned him lovingly, had washed his feet and given him His own Body and Blood to be his Food; and yet he repaid his Master's love with the basest treachery, placed himself at the head of His enemies, feigned friendship for Him, called Him Master, [Rabbi] and betrayed Him with a kiss! But Christians behave quite as basely and ungratefully when they make an unworthy Communion!
[From 'A Practical Commentary on Holy Scripture' by Bishop Knecht, D.D.] THE MALICE, INGRATITUDE AND DEPRAVITY OF JUDAS: Our Blessed Lord had loaded this man with benefits and graces. He had chosen him to be an apostle; He had let him witness His miracles and the holiness of His life; He had imparted to him His divine doctrine; He had borne with him patiently and warned him lovingly, had washed his feet and given him His own Body and Blood to be his Food; and yet he repaid his Master's love with the basest treachery, placed himself at the head of His enemies, feigned friendship for Him, called Him Master, [Rabbi] and betrayed Him with a kiss! But Christians behave quite as basely and ungratefully when they make an unworthy Communion!
(1899 Douay-Rheims Bible)
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