{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/203/2030869.htm","path":"chr/ecf/203/2030869.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/203/2030869.htm","text":"20. But, if it does not weary you, let the point out as briefly as possible, specific references to prophecy in the Gospels, that those who are being instructed in the first elements of the faith may have these testimonies written on their hearts, lest any doubt concerning the things which they believe should at any time take them by surprise. We are told in the Gospel that Judas, one of Christ\u2019s friends and associates at table, betrayed Him. Let the show you how this is foretold in the Psalms: \u201cHe who hath eaten My bread hath lifted up his heel against Me:\u201d 3304 and in another place; \u201cMy friends and My neighbours drew near and set themselves against Me:\u201d 3305 and again; \u201cHis words were made softer than oil and yet be they very darts.\u201d 3306 What then is meant by his words were made soft? \u201cJudas came to Jesus and said unto Him, Hail, Master, and kissed Him.\u201d 3307 Thus through the soft blandishment of a kiss he implanted the execrable dart of betrayal. On which the Lord said to him, \u201cJudas, betrayest thou the Son of Man with a kiss?\u201d 3308 You observe that He was appraised by the traitor\u2019s covetousness at thirty pieces of silver. Of this also the Prophet speaks, \u201cAnd I said unto them, If ye think good, give me my price, or if not, forbear;\u201d and presently, \u201cI received from them,\u201d he says, \u201cthirty pieces of silver, and I cast them into the house of the Lord, into the foundry.\u201d 3309 Is not this what is written in the Gospels, that Judas, \u201crepenting of what he had done, brought back the money, and threw it down in the temple and departed?\u201d 3310 Well did He call it His price, as though blaming and upbraiding. For He had done so many good works among them, He had given sight to the blind, feet to the lame, the power of walking to the palsied, life also to the dead; for all these good works they paid Him death as His price, appraised at thirty pieces of silver. It is related also in the Gospels that He was bound. This also the word of prophecy had foretold by Isaiah, saying, \u201cWoe unto their soul, who have devised a most evil device against themselves, saying, Let us bind the just One, seeing that He is unprofitable to us.\u201d 3311\nZech. 11:12, 13, LXX.\n551:3310 551:3311\nIsa. iii. 9, LXX.","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. III: Life and Works of Rufinus with Jerome's Apology Against Rufinus.: Section 20","type":"page"}