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12 Apr 2017

Foreseeing Betrayal

Οὐκ ἐπειδὴ προεῖπεν ὁ Κύριος, ὠ Θαυμάσιε, τὴν τοῦ Ἱούδα προαίρεσιν, ἐκεῖνος πρὸς  τὴν προδοσίαν ὠλίσθησεν, ἀλλ' ἐπειδὴ ὤδινε τὴν ἐπιβουλὴν ὁ ἀλιτήριος, ὁρῶν τα κρύφια τῆς καρδίας κινήματα, τὰ μέλλοντα ὡς παρόντα προέφηνε.

Ἅγιος Ἰσίδωρος Του Πηλουσιώτου, Βιβλιον Πρῶτον, Ἐπιστολή ΝϚ', Νειλῳ
It's not, excellent fellow, that because the Lord foretold the treachery of Judas, that he fell to betraying him, but because that wicked man had conceived betrayal, and seeing the hidden movements of the heart, 1 He spoke of future things as things present.


Saint Isidore of Pelusium, Book 1, Letter 56, to Neilos

1 cf Mt 9.4, Ps 43.22

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