The expression occurs in the ordination prayer for Matthias (Act 1:25) where St. Peter states that Judas, into whose place he was being appointed, fell away (, Vulg._ praevaricatus est) from the ministry and apostleship, to go to his own place. The phrase seems to remind us of the frequent OT phrase to go (or return) unto his place, though no doubt with a special significance of its own here, to which the case of Balaam ( , 2Pe 2:16) supplies the nearest but still inexact parallel (Num 24:25); cf. also Job 2:11, where the three friends came each from his own place. In both passages Rabbinic interpreters appear to have taken this to mean hell, though, of course, without any justifification according to our modern methods (see J. Lightfoot, Hor. Hebr., ed. Oxford, 1859, iv. 19). In the present passage, nevertheless, the proper place of the apostate is evidently conceived to be that spoken of by our Lord Himself (Mat 25:41; cf. Luk 12:9). A. Plummer has pointed out (HDB_ ii. 798) that some of the early Fathers, notably Origen (Com. in Matt. 35) with his characteristic ingenuity and large-heartedness, have suggested that Judass motive for hurrying away from this world to the other was not remorse but contrition; having failed to obtain Christs pardon here, he hastened to meet Him and obtain it in the place of the departed. At all events, if, as St. Matthew seems to indicate, the act of suicide took place before the Crucifixion, it is a striking thought to dwell upon, that the souls of the Saviour and His betrayer did meet for a brief space and perhaps held commune (1Pe 3:19); and if so, with what merciful consequences to the latter, who shall say?<\/p>\n
C. L. Feltce.<\/p>\n
Place (His Own) The expression occurs in the ordination prayer for Matthias (Act 1:25) where St. Peter states that Judas, into whose place he was being appointed, fell away (, Vulg._ praevaricatus est) from the ministry and apostleship, to go to his own place. The phrase seems to remind us of the frequent OT phrase … Continue reading “Place (His Own)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}