The first, false implication wa that he himself reas a philanthropist, He was not, As we read here "not that he eared for the poor." He had used the words of philanthropy to give plaamiility to hie argoment. [When he first became a disciple, he probably not more secular minded than some of the other disciples. There was, of course, al-}ways this difference that he was southerner, while all the others questionably influences his temperament and probably his character. Yet we cannot exonerate Judas on the ground of his being a southerner, for so also were Lazarus and 'Mary' and Martha. No, the special tendency of Judas was one that jean be discovered at all points of the compass, avarice. The love of money ix the key to Judao's eharacter. "It became not only a passion, but the prevailing passion, AIL' his other interests ranged themselves around Ie was central. Every question was. view in' its relation to money. As we huve suggested, other diseiples also had unworthy motives, but these others gradually yielded themselves to the regenerating influences Of Jesus. Their haser motives were But with Judas it was Even constant com Panionship with Jesus had failed to eradicate the root of avarice. These things being so, the impression that Judas sought to give of himself as a philanthropist was a false one. Supposing tke alabaster [tox of spikenard that Mary poured at the fect of Jesus had been sold, and the proceeds handed to Judas, would they have been given to the poor? It iv almost certain that they would not. The poor would be poor indeed if they had to depend upon people of the Judas type.
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