1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible
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| Acts 1:18 | *And he indeed hath possessed a field of the reward of iniquity, and being hanged, burst asunder in the midst: and all his bowels gushed out. Matthew 27:7. | Possessed a field. Judas is here said to have done, what was done by others, with the thirty pieces of money, the reward of his iniquity. And being hanged, that is, as St. Matthew says, (chap. 27:5.) having hanged himself, he burst asunder. The Greek has it, falling headlong,{ Ver. 18. Suspensus crepuit medius, prenes genomenos.|} as perhaps he did, by the judgment of God, from the place or tree where he hanged himself. (Witham) --- Judas did not possess the potter's field, but he furnished the price to buy it, giving back the thirty pieces of silver. (Menochius) --- We often say in common, that we have done what happens in consequence of any action of ours, though it was not in our first intention. (Calmet) |