4/19 St.John's invariable practice is to designate the traitor, whom he names four times, as 'Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon;'-- jealous doubtless for the honour of his brother Apostle, 'Jude ([Greek: Ioudas]) the brother of James[228]': and resolved that there shall be no mistake about the traitor's identity. Who does not at once recall the Evangelist's striking parenthesis in St.John xiv. 22,--'Judas (not Iscariot)'? 2 the Revisers present us with 'Judas Iscariot, Simon's son': and even in St.John xii. 4 they are content to read 'Judas Iscariot.' But in the two places of St.John's Gospel which remain to be noticed, viz.vi.71 and xiii. |