For he said, 'If I tell you, ye will not believe.'(14) And refusing to believe, they would have continued to insist on his death. But even if he had told them, he would yet have to suffer. In other words, that this most excellent god might plunge men into crime, whom he was still keeping in ignorance. (11) When led before the council, He is asked whether He is the Christ.(12) Of what Christ could the Jews have inquired(13) but their own? Why, therefore, did He not, even at that moment, declare to them the rival (Christ)? You reply, In order that He might be able to suffer. (9) The Christ of the prophets was destined, moreover, to be betrayed with a kiss,(10) for He was the Son indeed of Him who was 'honoured with the lips' by the people. I advise you therefore (willingly) to acknowledge the Creator in that god of yours, rather than against your will to be assimilating your excellent god to Him.įor in the case of Peter,(8) too, he gives you proof that he is a jealous God, when he destined the apostle, after his presumptuous protestations of zeal, to a flat denial of him, rather than prevent his fall. Now, if He knowingly permitted the man, whom He(4) deliberately elected to be one of His companions, to plunge into so great a crime, you must no longer use an argument against the Creator in Adam's case, which may now recoil on your own God:(5) either that he was ignorant, and had no foresight to hinder the future sinner (6) or that he was unable to hinder him, even if he was ignorant (7) or else that he was unwilling, even if he had the foreknowledge and the ability and so deserved the stigma of maliciousness, in having permitted the man of his own choice to perish in his sin. If he were meant to escape with impunity, the was an idle word if not, he was of course to be punished by Him against whom he had committed the sin of treachery. 'Woe,' says He, 'to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed!'(3) Now it is certain that in this woe must be understood the imprecation and threat of an angry and incensed Master, unless Judas was to escape with impunity after so vast a sin.

THE MORAL RESPONSIBILITY OF THESE MEN ASSERTED. CHRIST'S CONDUCT BEFORE THE COUNCIL EXPLAINED.CHRIST EVEN THEN DIRECTS THE MINDS OF HIS JUDGES TO THE PROPHETIC EVIDENCES OF HIS OWN MISSION. XLI.-THE WOE PRONOUNCED ON THE TRAITOR A JUDICIAL ACT, WHICH DISPROVES CHRIST TO BE SUCH AS MARCION WOULD HAVE HIM TO BE.

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