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Rh 74. To curse.) A goodly example and warning to mans infirmity, and to take heed of presumption, and to hang only upon God in tentations.

75. Wept bitterly.) S. Ambrose in his Hymne that the Church useth at Laudes, speaking of this, saith: Hoc ipsa Petra ecclesia canente, culpam dilvit. When the Cock crew, the Rock of the Church himself washed away his fault. S. August. 1. Retract. c. 21.

XXVII.

ND when morning was come, al the cheefe Priests and Ancients of the People consulted together against, that they might put him to death. And they brought him bound and delivered him to Ponce Pilate the President.

Then Judas that betrayed him, seeing that he was condemned ″ repenting him, returned the thirtie silver peeces to the cheefe Priests and Ancients, saying: I have sinned, betraying just bloud. But they said: What is that to us? looke thou to it. And casting downe the silver peeces in the temple, he departed: and went and ″ hanged himself with an halter. And the cheefe Priests having taken the silver peeces, said: It is not lawful to cast them into the Corbana, because it is the price of bloud. And after they had consulted togeather, they bought with them the potters field, to be a burying place for strangers. For this cause that field was called Haceldama, that is, the field of bloud, even to this present day. Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremie the Prophet, saying: ''And they tooke the thirtie peeces of silver, the price of the priced, whom they did price of the children of Israel. And they gave them into the potters field, as our Lord did appoint to me.''

And stood before the President, and the President asked him, saying, Art thou the King of the Jewes? saith to him: Thou sayest. And when he was accused of the cheefe Priests and Ancients, he answered nothing. Then Pilate saith to him: Doest thou not heare how great testimonies they alleage against thee? And he answered him not to any word: so that the President did marvel excedingly.

And upon the solemne day the President had accustomed to release unto the People one prisoner, whom they would. And he had then a notorious prisoner, that was called Barabbas. They Rh